Stalingrad | 
 enlarge | Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Actors: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vavrova
Studio: Fox Lorber
Category: DVD
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Avg. Customer Rating:  182 reviews
Sales Rank: 3684
Format: Color, Dolby, Dvd-video, Letterboxed, Subtitled, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), German (Original Language), English (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 1
Running Time: 150
Aspect Ratio: 1.66:1
DVD Layers: 2
DVD Sides: 1
Picture Format: Letterbox
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.4 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: D5036D
ISBN: 6305037280
UPC: 720917503622
EAN: 9786305037286
ASIN: 6305037280
Theatrical Release Date: 1992
Release Date: November 3, 1998
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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
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 Not thrilled April 28, 2008
This movie did show the battle with Stalingrad during WWII but it was too racy and had much profanity...and I had periods of boredom. Not good to show to a history class of students.
Excellent war movie March 26, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This movie is just set in Stalingrad, but in truth follows the story of some simple German soldiers, a story that could serve as example for soldiers of any antion caught in impossible situations.
I tought to be very well made in relation to the budget it had. Acting was strong, the general feeling was one of doom and no chance of living and the finale was tear-jerking and extremely sad.
There were some flaws, but what is a flaw for me can be a plus for other person watching the movie, so it's a subjective thing...
As far as war movies go, this is one of the best.
Stalingrad January 13, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
The film views the Battle of Stalingrad from the eyes of the German Army. I'm generally don't watch foreign films, but this one is well made and I liked it enough to watch it more than once. "Stalingrad" makes a decent companion film for "Enemy at the Gates".
 Stalingrad: the movie December 22, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Stalingrad This movie is great. It's the one movie that probably gives you the most accurate portrayal of what it was actually like to fight on the Russian Front. The situation was hopeless, almost from the beginning, and that is shown in this movie. It's nice to read books on the strategies and politics being played by the head honchos in World War II, and then see a movie like this which shows the soldiers that have to carry out those plans. It would be cool if somebody made a movie out of the book "Through Hell for Hitler" for the same reasons mentioned above.
Although, I'm sure that if someone made a movie about what the SS was doing in those countries, the movie would have an entirely different character.
Stalingrad - German Perspective December 7, 2007
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
I enjoyed watching a war film from an all German perspective. I found the German soldiers to be faithfully represented in everything from their haircuts to their equipment, and their weapons. Unlike Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan, in which the Germans were portrayed in a manner not truthfully represented for history's sake, the movie Stalingrad is an excellent account of a very small slice of one of the most brutal battles in World War Two. Of course it has anti-war overtones which are apparent throughout the movie, and become even more so near the end, climaxing in the snow drifts of a brutal Russian Winter, we find the Sixth army trapped and surrounded by the Russian soldiers, who are accurately portrayed, and who take a secondary role to the dialog of the disintegrating German Army and soldats who star in this film. The themes of brutality, discipline to the end, starvation, and disease take the viewer through the horror of war, and its trials and tribulations of friendships ripped apart by senseless murder, and the agony of the wounded soldiers, some with missing limbs and horrible wounds.
To be a little critical, I did find some scenes confusing, and the segway between scenes also a little confusing. I would like to have seen the larger picture of the German chain of command in action, linking the main characters with the larger German force trying to capture Stalingrad.
But, overall, the movie's theme and tone were nicely put together and I would recommend this movie to the younger generation so they can, one day, make all war illegal and banned from planet Earth, so they will never have to experience the horrors and brutality of warfare.
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