为纪念苏联卫国战争30周年，前苏联莫斯科电影制片厂于1970—1972年，拍摄了一部堪称前苏联电影史上耗资最巨、规模最大、场面最为壮观的战争题材影片———《解放》。影片从1943年苏联红军反攻（库尔斯克战役）开始，到强渡涅伯河，解放基辅，最后攻克柏林。分为五集，片长将近8个小时。导演尤里·奥泽洛夫为强调“纪实性”、“史诗性”，在影片中穿插了大量的真实历史文献镜头。影片还出现了不少历史人物，如斯大林、朱可夫、罗斯福、丘吉尔、希特勒、墨索里尼等。此外，影片还蕴涵丰富感人的故事情节，从苏、德两军统帅到普通士兵，从苏军反攻到德军覆没，成功地表现了一种攻无不克、战无不胜的革命乐观主义精神。

The story takes place in the 1950s. Konstantin “Kostik” Romin (Oleg Menshikov) has come to Moscow to study history and is staying with kindly aunt Alisa (Sofya Pilyavskaya), who runs a communal apartment building there. His life soon becomes intertwined with those of the other residents. Among them are Margarita Pavlovna (Inna Ulyanova) and both her former husband Lev Khobotov (Anatoly Ravikovich), a publisher of foreign poetry, and her new beau, engraver-turned-teacher Savva Ignatevich (Viktor Bortsov).
The main plot revolves around the congenial Khobotov’s attempts to find happiness with newfound love Lyudochka (Yelena Koreneva), while constantly being thwarted by the controlling Margarita. Another tenant is musical comedian Arkady Velyurov (Leonid Bronevoy), who is trying to revive his faltering career and escape from his own loneliness. He has become enamored of a young competitive swimmer, Svetlana (Tatyana Dogileva), who rebuffs his advances but takes a fancy to the opportunistic Kostik.
Kostik finds his own love interest, Rita (Valentina Voilkova), for whom he decides to forsake his playboy lifestyle. In the end he becomes the catalyst for both Khobotov and Velyurov to find some measure of happiness: the former elopes with Lyudochka with the help of Kostik's pal Savransky, and the latter is elated that Svetlana attends one of his concerts in response to a telegram Kostik had urged him to send.

1976 film by Inessa Seleznyova