Julian Calendar, the day of the October Revolution. The film also made many references to the political situation in Europe. Turkey, which was a neutral country during the war but a rival of the Soviet Union in the Cold War, was portrayed as if it was an Axis state; the Turkish ambassador even greeted Hitler in the name of İsmet İnönü. The Nazi sympathies of Vatican ambassador Cesare Orsenigo were emphasized as well. Churchill, seen as an enemy after his 1946 Fulton Speech, was portrayed in a highly negative fashion. It is regarded by many critics as the epitome of Stalin's cult of personality in cinema: Denise Youngblood wrote "it was impossible to go further" in the "veneration" of him; Philip Boobbyer claimed the cult reached "extraordinary proportions" with its release; Lars Karl opined it "stood above any other part of the cult"; Slavoj Žižek regarded it as the "supreme case of the Stalinist epic" Nikolas Hüllbusch commented that it was the "zenith" of the representation of Stalin's screen "alter-ego"; and Richard Taylor believed it was "the apotheosis of Stalin's cult of Stalin". Restoration In 1991, after the dissolution of the Soviet Union, The Fall of Berlin had its first public screening in forty years, during the 48th Venice International Film Festival. In 1993, Dušan Makavejev included footage from the film in his picture Gorilla Bathes at Noon. In 2003, the film was remastered by a company from Toulouse, in a relatively poor quality. In 2007, it was re-released by the American group International Historical Films. No available version contains the Beria scene, though several old uncensored copies of the film appear to exist. Notes References External links and of The Fall of Berlin, on Mosfilm's YouTube channel. The Fall of Berlin'' for direct free viewing on the Mosfilm studio's official site. The Fall of Berlin on kino-teatr.ru. The Fall of Berlin on Mubi. The Fall of Berlin on the Princeton University Department of Slavistics' site. A review of The Fall of Berlin by Michael Barrett. An essay about The Fall of Berlin on akado.ru. The Fall of Berlin on ostfilm.de. 1949 films Soviet World War II propaganda films 1950s Russian-language films Crystal Globe winners Eastern Front of World War II films Films about Joseph Stalin Cultural depictions of Adolf Hitler Cultural depictions of Eva Braun Cultural depictions of Franklin D. Roosevelt Cultural depictions of Georgy Zhukov Cultural depictions of