"If only I had gone to Berlin." Principal photography Chiaureli brought some 10,000 Soviet extras to Berlin for the filming, and also hired many local residents for the tunnel flooding sequence; he was not able to work in the Reichstag as it was located in the British Zone of West Berlin and conducted the photography mainly in the Babelsberg Studios. However, most of the episodes set in the German capital were filmed in ruined cities in the Baltic region. In addition, a scale model of Berlin, over one square kilometer in size, was built in Mosfilm's studios; this miniature was to create the urban combat scenes in the end of Part II. The Soviet Army provided five divisions, their supporting artillery formations, four tank battalions, 193 military aircraft and 45 captured German tanks to recreate the open field battles portrayed in The Fall of Berlin. They consumed 1.5 million liters of fuel during the filming. The Fall of Berlin was one of the first colored films made in the Soviet Union. The producers used Agfacolor reels, taken from UFA's studios in Neubabelsberg. Music Composer Dmitri Shostakovich, who was accused of Formalism during 1948, was called on to compose the score. Vano Muradeli said that his contribution to The Fall of Berlin and other Stalinist films was the only thing which saved him from persecution by the establishment. Riley wrote that the film's score, along with Song of the Forests, "was the closest Shostakhovich came to overt praise for Stalin." One additional piece of music used in The Fall of Berlin was Felix Mendelssohn's Wedding March, heard during the scene in which Hitler marries Eva Braun; the march was banned in Nazi Germany. According to Riley, it is unclear whether Chiaureli intended to mock the Nazis by portraying them as unable to recognize an item they have forbidden, or he has simply been ignorant of the ban. Soundtrack for Part I Main Title Part 1 (2:44) Beautiful Day (2:14) [accompanied by a children's chorus singing Beautiful Day; lyrics by Yevgeny Dolmatovsky.] Alyosha By the River (1:39) Stalins's Garden (2:04) Alyosha and Natalia in the Fields / Attack (3:55) Hitler's Reception (1:31) In the Devastated Village (2:39) Forward! (0:58) Soundtrack for Part II Main Title Part 2 (2:06) The Roll Call / Attack at Night (3:02) Storming the Seelov Heights (6:26) The Flooding of the Underground Station (1:11) The Final Battle for