Stalingrad (2013)

A group of 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 two Russian women who have been living there.

Director:

Fedor Bondarchuk

Writers:

Vasiliy Grossman (book), Sergey Snezhkin (screenplay)

Stars:

Mariya Smolnikova, Yanina Studilina, Pyotr Fyodorov

9 wins & 13 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Mariya Smolnikova	...	Katya
Yanina Studilina	...	Masha
Pyotr Fyodorov	...	Kapitan Gromov
Thomas Kretschmann	...	Kapitan Kan (as Tomas Krechmann)
Sergey Bondarchuk	...	Sergey Astakhov
Dmitriy Lysenkov	...	Chvanov
Andrey Smolyakov	...	Polyakov
Aleksey Barabash	...	Nikiforov
Oleg Volku	...	Krasnov
Heiner Lauterbach	...	Khenze (as Khayner Lauterbakh)
Polina Raykina	...	Natashka
Anna von Haebler	...	Nina (as Anna von Abler)
Yuriy Nazarov	...	V roli navodchika (as Yuriy Vladimirovich Nazarov)
Mariya Sittel	...	Perevod rechi premer-ministra Yaponii chitaet (voice)
Petar Zekavica	...	Yurgens (as Petar Zekavitsa)

Storyline

Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for those who were worthy of awards, but the only reward they managed to get was love. How they won, and how they were not defeated, who they were and who was on the other side of the street, what secret they have taken away with them - the movie will tell this story.

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Plot Keywords:

stalingrad | heroism | world war two | russia | russian history | 

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Taglines:

The epic battle that turned the tide of World War II

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Genres:

Action | Drama | War

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Certificate:

14A

Did You Know?

Trivia

While much is said of Stalingrad being of symbolic value for Hitler, it was a transit hub for oil deliveries for the Soviets, who got their oil from Chechnya and Azerbaijan at the time. The whole southern focus of the Axis campaign on the Eastern Front was to capture the Caucasus oilfields.

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Goofs

When the Nazi soldiers are boarding up the windows of the bus with Rimma and her daughter inside, when seen from the exterior, the side of the bus is almost entirely boarded up, but when seen from the interior, there are only a couple boards on the windows.

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Connections

Referenced in Vecherniy Urgant: Mariya Mironova/Les 7 Doigts de la Main (2013)

User Reviews

Very poor film about great battle

Actually, this film MUST not have its name. There is nothing about Stalingrad battle... Yes, cute pictures how burned Soviet soldiers attacking German positions and slow-motion hand-to-hand battles looks nice, but that is nothing related to real history of this battle.

In terms of scale the film does not give the answer at least about one local engagement in Stalingrad in WW2, especially if take into account that there were a lot of such events. Heroes behaves really strange and illogical sometimes. Very messy scene where commander made hysteric about killed German soldier who came for water. "Even animals do not devour each other at the watering!" he says. What? Hey, director, haven't you seen "Animal planet"?..

So the good name for this film is "Saving girl Katya", but not "Stalingrad". It's just a director's fantasies about THE WAR, and how does he see it, but there is nothing related to Stalingrad battle at all. Now we can easily change decorations and make film with same mental content named "Berlin" or "Kiev", because we could simply imagine the same "war story" anywhere. So, why Stalingrad?..

Details

Official Sites:

Official Site Official Site [Russia]

Country:

Russia

Language:

Russian German Japanese

Release Date:

10 October 2013 (Russia)

Also Known As:

Stalingrad

Filming Locations:

Russia

Box Office

Budget:

$30,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$510,846, 2 March 2014

Gross USA:

$1,013,945

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$68,316,452

Company Credits

Production Co:

Art Pictures Studio, Non-Stop Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

131 min

Sound Mix:

Auro 11.1

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1