Tag: Stalingradskaya Bitva
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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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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