Moscow Strikes Back

Moscow Strikes Back
11:25 Red Army soldiers cheer Stalin in Red Square
Directed byIlya Kopalin
Leonid Varlamov
Produced byCentral Studio of Newsreels
StarringGenerals Zhukov, Rokossovsky, ordinary soldiers
CinematographyIvan Belyakov and others
Music byV. Smirnov
Release date
  • February 23, 1942 (1942-02-23)
Running time
55 minutes
(English version)
CountryUSSR
LanguageRussian (subtitles)

Moscow Strikes Back is a Soviet war documentary film about the Battle of Moscow between October 1941 and January 1942. It was directed by Ilya Kopalin and Leonid Varlamov. It was one of four films that won a 1942 Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.