 Tony Shaw noted "The Fall of Berlin" enjoyed mostly positive reviews during its six-week run in London and its subsequent showings in the country, though some also commented it was overblown propaganda; the critics of "The Sunday Times" and the "Evening Standard" both opined that the Soviets' obliteration of the UK-US contribution to victory was akin to the same treatment received by the Red Army in Western productions about the war.The film was one of the few foreign-language pictures to be presented in the BBC's program "Current Release"; former war correspondent Matthew Halton was invited to comment on it.The US magazine "Variety" described it as "The Russian answer to the many US and UK films about the war... having some contemporary significance, in the light of the tensions between the West and the Soviet Union."