Stalingrad
Struggling against the bloodshed and the violence the German army held against innocents, a group of courageous do their best, in order to set up a wall that make them away from that bloodshed, but they face many challenges and obstacles in achieving their goal, as they receiving help from two Russian women.
14 April 1969, Leningrad, RSFSR, USSR
8 October 1979, Belgrade, Serbia, Yugoslavia [now Serbia]
14 May 1981, Zurich, Switzerland
May 22, 2014
Stalingrad is a film that is completely lacking in substance, not only on the basic storytelling level, but also on the human level.February 28, 2014
To wave a flag, sing a song and celebrate it as the uncomplicated and inevitable victory of good over evil is the sort of easy message only an old propagandist - or a president for life - could really cheer.February 28, 2014
Too often does [Bondarchuk] goad his characters to brim over with righteous bloodlust-and, despite the occasional obligatory misgiving about the barbarism of war, goads the audience to lust right along with them.November 06, 2014
Fedor Bondarchuk's bloody battle epic celebrates the excesses of war cinema far more effectively than it does the heroism of his countrymen.February 28, 2014
Overall, Stalingrad is a bizarre concoction, part Putin-era patriotic chest-thumping and part creaky war melodrama, all set in a superbly recreated ruined city.October 10, 2014
It's exciting to see post-communism Russian cinema patriotically revisiting its own history like this. I didn't mind the clichés, because part of Stalingrad's 131-minute charm is that in some ways it feels 40 years old.February 28, 2014
I'd recommend it just for the window it provides into popular entertainment on the other side of the world.August 18, 2014
Stalingrad is far from a perfect war film, but it does add up to an overall gratifying visual experience.February 28, 2014
Stalingrad is long and operatic, but its message is simple enough: War is hell, but hell, it makes for good cinema.June 04, 2014
while the narrative encourages a sense of philosophical reflection about the horrors of war, the film's video-game-inspired look constantly puts us at a distance by overly aestheticizing the violence with extreme slow motion and bullet time effectsJune 21, 2016
The film establishes itself as a work of national pride wrapped in the form of a heritage spectacle.February 28, 2014
If you thought Saving Private Ryan needed to be more like 300, then Stalingrad is the movie for you.