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Moscow Strikes Back

1942 war propaganda film by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov
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Summary

Moscow Strikes Back is a film[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of film entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (822 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Award received: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[3]
  • Director: Leonid Varlamov[4], Ilya Kopalin[5]
  • Screenwriter: Albert Maltz[6]
  • Composer: Dimitri Tiomkin[7]
  • Genre: documentary film[8], propaganda film[9]
  • Production company: Russian Central Studio of Documentary Films[10]
  • Director of photography: Ivan Belyakov[11], Georgy Bobrov[12], Teodor Bunimovich[13]
  • Original language of film or TV show: Russian[14]
  • Commons category: Moscow Strikes Back[15]
  • Distribution format: video on demand[16]
  • Color: black-and-white[17]
  • Country of origin: Soviet Union[18]
  • Publication date: January 1, 1942[19]
  • Distributed by: Republic Pictures[20], Netflix[21]
  • Main subject: World War II[22], Battle of Moscow[23]
  • Nominated for: Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[24]
  • Title: Разгром немецких войск под Москвой[25]
  • Duration: 55 minutes[26]

Why It Matters

Moscow Strikes Back has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[27] It is known by 18 alternative names across languages and contexts.[28]

FAQs

What awards did Moscow Strikes Back receive?

Honors received include Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature Film[3].

Related Entities

Dimitri Tiomkin film Netflix

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  5. [8] ↑ . imdb.com. Retrieved . imdb.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [3] ↑ . First Oscar. oscars.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  8. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  22. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  24. [26] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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  1. 1d ago · Quesotiotyo · 2026-10-15 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['bg', 'ca', 'commons', 'crh', 'da', 'de', 'en', 'es', 'fa', 'fr', 'hy', 'id', '
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  2. 19w ago · ~2026-22243-63 · 2026-05-31 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Genre → documentary film, propaganda film
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  3. 19w ago · ~2026-31184-44 · 2026-05-29 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → film
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