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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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for sequences of war violence

Did You Know?

Trivia

Pavlov's House is a real life house, later on Vasily Chuikov a Soviet general joked about Germans lost more men trying to take over Pavlov's house than they did taking Paris.

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Goofs

Of the model airplanes hanging from the ceiling, one appears to be a model of an F4U Corsair which was only released in 1942.

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Connections

Referenced in Evening Urgant: Konstantin Khabensky/Patricia Kaas (2013)

User Reviews

Stalingrad- A missed opportunity

For the story, I give this movie a 5/10. I was a little bored by it. However, for the fighting, this movie gets a 8/10. This movie has some of the best fighting scenes I have ever seen. The visuals also are truly some of the best I have ever seen. Any future war movie needs to borrow from this movies visuals. I can't overstate how blown away visually the combat was.

This movie deserves better than a 5.6. I can understand a low rating for the boring scenes in between the fighting, but its just too low for what its really worth. It is clear this movie missed the mark in delivering a good story as well as making us truly love the characters who were rather still good. More fighting and less sitting around would have done this movie far better.

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