Andrew Shakespeare
- ಸೂಕ್ತವಲ್ಲವಲ್ಲದ್ದನ್ನು ಫ್ಲ್ಯಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಿ
It's a Russian movie, and cultural expectations show. This is never more evident than in the opening minutes, when a company of Russian soldiers, having been caught in exploding fuel tanks, have all caught fire, but with their dying, agonised moments, charge the German lines with such determination that even machine guns can't stop them. But the movie is worth the perseverance, because what follows is a superbly performed story which succeeds better than any other Stalingrad movie I've seen at conveying the desperation and brutality of that battle. Both sides are sensitively and intelligently portrayed, as are the civilians caught in the middle. Despite a silly and slightly bewildering start, it turns out to be a gripping and thought-provoking story, with plenty of action and stuff going "bang".
Darren Orton
- ಸೂಕ್ತವಲ್ಲವಲ್ಲದ್ದನ್ನು ಫ್ಲ್ಯಾಗ್ ಮಾಡಿ
Talk about russian propaganda, it stinks of it, would have been better if thought went into it and made it grittier, for gods sake it was stalingrad, hardly any russian dies but loadsa germans come on, russians lost very heavily before and during encirclement