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 (4,712 voted)
Critic's Score: 50/100
Director: Fedor Bondarchuk
Stars: Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov
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.
Writers: Sergey Snezhkin, Ilya Tilkin
Cast: Mariya Smolnikova -
Katya
Yanina Studilina -
Masha
Pyotr Fyodorov -
Kapitan Gromov
Thomas Kretschmann -
Kapitan Kan
(as Tomas Krechmann)
Sergey Bondarchuk -
Sergey Astakhov
Dmitriy Lysenkov -
Chvanov
Andrey Smolyakov -
Polyakov
Aleksey Barabash -
Nikiforov
Oleg Volku -
Krasnov
Heiner Lauterbach -
Khenze
(as Khayner Lauterbakh)
Polina Raykina -
Natashka
Anna von Abler -
Nina
Yuriy Nazarov -
V roli navodchika
(as Yuriy Vladimirovich Nazarov)
Mariya Sittel -
Perevod rechi premer-ministra Yaponii chitaet
(voice)
Petar Zekavica -
Yurgens
(as Petar Zekavitsa)
Trivia: Fedor Bondarchuk, Andrey Smolyakov, and Thomas Kretschmann have already acted in films named Stalingrad: Thomas starred in the German movie Stalingrad (1993), Fedor and Andrey had roles in the Soviet movie Stalingrad (1989). See more »
User Review
Author:
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?..
Plot
A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's 'high water mark', as seen through the eyes of German officer Hans von Witzland and his battalion.
Release Year: 1993
Rating: 7.5/10 (12,163 voted)
Director:
Joseph Vilsmaier
Stars: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Sebastian Rudolph
Storyline A depiction of the brutal battle of Stalingrad, the Third Reich's 'high water mark', as seen through the eyes of German officer Hans von Witzland and his battalion.
Writers: Joseph Vilsmaier, Jürgen Büscher
Cast: Dominique Horwitz
-
Obergefreiter Fritz Reiser
Thomas Kretschmann
-
Lt. Hans von Witzland
Jochen Nickel
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Unteroffizier Manfred Rohleder
Sebastian Rudolph
-
GeGe Müller
Dana Vávrová
-
Irina
Martin Benrath
-
Gen. Hentz
Sylvester Groth
-
Otto
Karel Hermánek
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Capt. Hermann Musk
Heinz Emigholz
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Edgar Emigholz
Ferdinand Schuster
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Double Edgar
Oliver Broumis
-
HGM
Dieter Okras
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Capt. Haller
Zdenek Vencl
-
Wölk
Mark Kuhn
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Sgt. Pflüger
Thorsten Bolloff
-
Feldmann
Taglines:
Bis zum letzten Mann... (Till the last man)
Release Date: 21 January 1993
Filming Locations: Bavaria Filmstudios, Geiselgasteig, Grünwald, Bavaria, Germany
Box Office Details
Budget: DEM 20,000,000
(estimated)
Gross: $77,848
(USA)
Technical Specs
Runtime:|
Argentina:
Did You Know?
Trivia:
The original screenplay was written by Christoph Fromm but the producers disagreed with his more realistic direction and had it rewritten. Consequently, Fromm took his name of the film.
Goofs:
Errors in geography:
At the beginning of the movie "Porto Cervo" is indicated as the location where the German army is located. But the city is clearly Cervo, in Liguria. Porto Cervo is in Sardinia.
Quotes: Otto:
Welcome to our grave.
User Review
Top Ten war movie in my list
Rating: 9/10
I can believe this movie will be a serious disappointment for a person,
who is used to and likes to watch Hollywood war movies. Four reasons:
1. It's made in a world, where movie makers tries to have some
personality. If you think 'When We Were Soldiers'... well, there are
hundreds of directors who you can imagine making a similar war movie
with personality and values of a hamburger.
2. Screenplay has a different structure. There's no shocking opening
scene like in 'Saving Private Ryan'. This movie starts slowly in a very
nice place and ends slowly in a very bad place, without hope or feeling
that the characters have achieved something by their heroic actions.
3. It is first a movie about lost causes in the world of war, and only
secondly a war movie which takes place in Stalingrad.
4. War scenes portray the horror, insecurity and confusion of a battle,
instead of how cool, heroic and exciting fighting looks like. In this
sense, this movie is closer to reality than most of the war movies you
will ever see. 'Thin Red Line' also had similar "I would probably crap
in my pants in that situation"-feeling.
Stalingrad, whether you think it as a movie or a war movie has so many
good things in it... like honesty. Even the ordinary German soldiers
were dreaming about farms in Russia when they were advancing. What a
disappointment they must have had in Stalingrad! If you like to watch
war movies, meaning also other war movies than When We Were Soldiers or
Saving Private Ryan, you should see this one. (9/10)
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