Tag: Stalingrad

The Horrors of Stalingrad

The Horrors of Stalingrad

January 16, 2016 | By

Reviews of two films featuring very distinct perspectives of a brutal WWII battle: the German 2003 documentary series Stalingrad (Synapse Films), and the 1949 Soviet propaganda epic The Battle of Stalingrad / Stalingradskaya bitva (Icestorm).

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BR: Stalingrad (2003)

BR: Stalingrad (2003)

January 16, 2016 | By

The story of the Nazis’ attempt to claim and flatten the city of Stalingrad and make its deepest foray into Soviet Russia had been chronicled in several dramatic films – notably in 1949 and 1993 – but this 2003 German 165 minute documentary series marked the first time survivors of the battle, which claimed 200,000 Germans and more than 500,000 Russian soldiers and civilians…

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DVD: Battle of Stalingrad, The / Stalingradskaya bitva / Die Stalingrader Schlacht (1949)

DVD: Battle of Stalingrad, The / Stalingradskaya bitva / Die Stalingrader Schlacht (1949)

January 16, 2016 | By

The Battle of Stalingrad was the first cinematic attempt to dramatize the pivotal 1942-1943 battle in which Adolph Hitler’s 6th Army and the 4th Panzer Army were surrounded (‘kesseled’) by Joseph Stalin’s Red Army, and what Adolph Hitler had naively and foolishly felt would be a winnable…

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