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:

Sergey Snezhkin, Ilya Tilkin

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
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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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of war violence

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, 28 February 2014, Limited Release

Gross USA:

$1,013,945

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$68,245,261

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

Did You Know?

Trivia

The Stalingrad set built near St. Petersburg was also used to film the opening and closing scenes of earthquake/tsunami stricken Japan.

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Goofs

The Russian sniper is shot in the right upper arm after he lets the girl shoots the German. Later in the movie however, the sniper is not wounded.

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Connections

Featured in Being George Clooney (2016)

User Reviews

The Movie is Greatness - Don't Believe the Detractors

I am an avid reader of all things Stalingrad and I must be in the minority but I loved it. I kept reading reviews that compared the love story aspect of it to Titanic, so I was expecting an over the top love story with a little bit of Stalingrad mixed in. In reality, the love story part of the film was somewhat muted, did not feel shoe-horned into a war movie, nor did it seem implausible. I think it was well cast and had excellent actors. IMO, if the exact same movie had been released with Spielberg's name attached and the actors speaking English, it would have been well received. It seems there are biases against foreign films, perhaps rooted in the cold war. While it was not a 10, I thought it was a very solid film that made the viewers feel like they were there. Experiencing the film helped me see another facet to the battle. possible through books. Highly recommended!