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 enlarge | Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Actors: Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph, Dana Vavrova
Studio: Fox Lorber
Category: DVD
List Price: $34.98
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Avg. Customer Rating:  187 reviews
Sales Rank: 6597
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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 Just the best September 12, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is a brilliant war film, incredibly well-done. The director did the right thing -- he focused upon telling the story and ignored entertainment. The result is one of the most entertaining war films I've ever seen. Don't miss this one. It's even better than "Tora! Tora! Tora!" and/or "The Big Red One".
Russia in the cold May 13, 2007
3 out of 6 found this review helpful
Life and death on the russian front. So few returned on either side.
A well produced and well acted epic February 5, 2007
12 out of 13 found this review helpful
It is always a satifying experience to view a film in which none of the actors are familiar and be absolutely floored at their performances. Watching Stalingrad in German with English subtitles provides such an experience.
The battle of Stalingrad was a disaster for the German army and was instrumental in their ultimate defeat. A part of the European war that has not been featured in American films, the Russian front was brutal in terms of both the combat attrocities and the elements. This film captures a group of German soldiers who are thrust into these circumstances and spares the viewer nothing in recording the horrors of war.
It is not sympathetic to the German side and doesn't have any hint of nationalism or patriotism- it just lays out the story as factually as possible.
Indispensible viewing for history and WWII buffs. Right up there with Saving Private Ryan as the most realistic of WWII films.
 Stalingrad January 14, 2007
6 out of 50 found this review helpful
This was a very poor film of the seige of Stalingrad. The acting, plot, English dubbing and flow of the movie was of poor quality. Although it tried to show the suffering of both the Germans and Russians during seige of Stalingrad, the acting and characters in the movie were not interestng enough to hold your attention. Far below the overall quality of the other DVD I purchased at the same time, "Enemy at the Gates"
Impacting January 9, 2007
9 out of 10 found this review helpful
Germany's war films are always very real and factual, they don't doll them up with grandeur and Rambo-type scenarios. They never give a false illusion of what it was like to be a German soldier in World War 2, the hopelessness in the end, the devastation of being in war you didn't want to be in that went on forever and knowing all along your chances of survival were very slim. (I have read a collection of letters of German soldiers from the front and those men were so very tired of war and just wanted to see home again.)
This film impacts all that real desperation felt by those men on the front lines. It's completely unbelievable how their officials in the end treated their own soldiers. How many of them were left to starved or freeze to death in Russia, completely abandoned by their own country on a frozen terrain.
Stats are given in the end of how many German soldiers surrendered in World War 2, to how many were actually taken prisoner (1/3 survived surrendering) to how many returned home after being taken prisoner and put in Prisoner of War Camps (15%) It makes you realize how hopeless their situation was and this film impacts that emotion in every sense.
My only complaint is that the subtitles went by a bit fast at times.
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