Plot
A band of Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to two Russian women who have been living there.
Release Year: 2013
Rating: 5.4/10 (4,922 voted)
Director:Fedor Bondarchuk
Storyline
Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for those who were worthy of awards, but the only reward they managed to get was love. How they won, and how they were not defeated, who they were and who was on the other side of the street, what secret they have taken away with them - the movie will tell this story.
Trivia:
Official submission of Russia to the Oscars 2014 best foreign language film category. See more »
User Review
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Rating: 5/10
Actually, this film MUST not have its name. There is nothing about
Stalingrad battle... Yes, cute pictures how burned Soviet soldiers
attacking German positions and slow-motion hand-to-hand battles looks
nice, but that is nothing related to real history of this battle.
In terms of scale the film does not give the answer at least about one
local engagement in Stalingrad in WW2, especially if take into account
that there were a lot of such events. Heroes behaves really strange and
illogical sometimes. Very messy scene where commander made hysteric
about killed German soldier who came for water. "Even animals do not
devour each other at the watering!" he says. What? Hey, director,
haven't you seen "Animal planet"?..
So the good name for this film is "Saving girl Katya", but not
"Stalingrad". It's just a director's fantasies about THE WAR, and how
does he see it, but there is nothing related to Stalingrad battle at
all. Now we can easily change decorations and make film with same
mental content named "Berlin" or "Kiev", because we could simply
imagine the same "war story" anywhere. So, why Stalingrad?..
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