Brandenburg Gate

Radio play based on a play by Mikhail Svetlov: the fates of Soviet soldiers and officers who heroically reached Berlin.

Mikhail Svetlov, author of the famous "Grenada," spent the whole war as a war correspondent on the Leningrad front. He was awarded two Orders of the Red Star and medals.
The play "Brandenburg Gate" was created by him in 1945, soon after Victory.

"I didn’t attempt to reveal in ‘Brandenburg Gate’ the full grandeur of the Great Patriotic War — that’s beyond me. I wanted to show the ordinary and dear heroes I knew, loved, and lived with for four years."
Mikhail Svetlov

Music — Yuri Biryukov. Film studio orchestra conducted by Emin Khachatryan. Recording from 1965.

Kuzma Nikolaevich Korobyenkov, party organizer of the battalion — Boris Tolmazov
Sergey Vladimirovich Okhotin, battalion commander — Igor Okhlupin
Fedya Bolmasov, aide-de-camp of Okhotin — Viktor Vishnyak
Tatyana Petrovna, head of the battalion medical post — Svetlana Mizery
Marya, nurse orderly — Svetlana Nemolyaeva
Ivan Ivanovich Shipov — Mikhail Ulyanov
Katya, cook and nurse orderly — Galina Vinogradova
Bekpergen, fighter — Valentin Kozlov
Vasilyev, shopkeeper, master of toy-making — Gennady Pechnikov
Colonel — Mikhail Zimin
First signalman — Aleksey Pokrovskiy
Second signalman — Georgy Vitsin
Vydrin, fighter — Vladimir Trosin