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.
Stalingrad
The epic battle that turned the tide of World War II
2013 · 2h 11m · R
Action, Drama, War
Directed by
Fyodor Bondarchuk
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Stalingrad
Overview
A band of determined 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 a Russian woman who has been living there.
Director and cast
- Fyodor Bondarchuk Director
- Mariya Smolnikova as Katya
- Yanina Studilina as Masha
- Pyotr Fyodorov as Kapitan Gromov
- Thomas Kretschmann as Kapitan Kan
- Sergey Bondarchuk as Sergey Astakhov
- Dmitry Lysenkov as Chvanov
- Andrey Smolyakov as Polyakov
- Aleksey Barabash as Nikiforov
- Oleg Volku as Krasnov
- Heiner Lauterbach as Khenze
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
If you thought Saving Private Ryan needed to be more like 300, then Stalingrad is the movie for you.
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.
Stalingrad is long and operatic, but its message is simple enough: War is hell, but hell, it makes for good cinema.
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.
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