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Stalingrad
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| Part No: | 6305037280 |
| Manufacturer: | Fox Lorber |
| MFG Part: | D5036D |
| Customer Rating: | 4.0 / 5.0 |
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It's tempting to call this harrowing picture a World War II version of
All Quiet on the Western Front: both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level.
Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people, Russian defenders and German invaders alike. Not unlike Spielberg's approach to
Saving Private Ryan, German director Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a series of gut-wrenching episodes, events which have the tang of authenticity and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so well.
--Robert Horton
| 3.5 stars out of 4 | 2008-12-19 | 5 / 5 |
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The Bottom Line:
The movie's relentless pace slows a bit in the less-intense third act, but that's a minor knock on this absolutely superb war film featuring some great battle scenes, good characterization, and a fitting conclusion; I can recommend few war movies more highly. |
| An Anti-War Piece of the Combat Canon | 2008-12-08 | 5 / 5 |
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I came to this film out of curiosity - I'd been writing a historical novel about the Eastern Front war, and as that wound dow, this turned up. It's by the makers of the critically acclaimed German submarine move Das Boot (The Boat), and the same gritty reality comes through here.
As with all good war writing, the nature of war makes the film an anti-war piece of the combat canon. |
| Good War Movie | 2008-09-21 | 4 / 5 |
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| After having read a few books and scene numerous documentaries on the subject. The World at War series did a great job on this. I had to purchase this movie even knowing the reviews here were mixed. I agree with many reviews on both sides. Overall I would say this to be a good movie though. It was well made and acted. My only complaint is they tend to portray the german soldiers as cry babies, deserters, remorseful, disobedient, and un-tough. I'd say that's very far from the real truth. The german soldier was as good as he was because he wasn't any of those things. Obviously with so many german soldiers in this battle you would find some of these kinds of people but all together in one company? That's hard to believe. I'd say the majority of them were not remorseful at all. And they surely wouldn't have survived as long as they did had they been disobedient slackers. That was a little irritating. Still, on the whole this was very well done. |
| stalingrad | 2008-09-19 | 5 / 5 |
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this movie is good,especially the language,the german,they spoke in their language and with english subtitles.i go through your list and found out that mostly region 2 dvd war movie,the language is in german but no english subtitle,for example,cross of iron and ther war movie,i hope u state the product of the dvd whether it got english subtitles or no.
thank
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| The best of the very best | 2008-08-10 | 5 / 5 |
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| Don't think so much about to buy this film. If you like war films this is a MUST. |
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