Underplayed Gems

Stalingrad (2013)

Stalingrad poster
Original title
Сталинград
Directed by
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Genre
drama film, action film, war film, romance film, historical film
Country
Russia
Runtime
2h 15m
Rated
R
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 390 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

In November 1942, during the brutal Battle of Stalingrad, soldiers on both sides fight to survive while trying to protect the people they love. The film follows their struggle to hold onto their humanity amid the horrors of war.

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What happens

Stalingrad (Сталинград) is a 2013 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. It was the first Russian movie released in IMAX. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd (formerly Stalingrad) and October in Russia before its international release in subsequent months (all releases were handled by the foreign-language arm of Columbia Pictures). The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Stalingrad received the I3DS (International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society) Jury Award for Russia in 2014. The film is a love story set in November 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, three months into the six month battle that caused nearly 2,000,000 total casualties (wounded, killed, captured) for the two opponents, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. The story follows soldiers from both sides as they fight to survive while saving the lives of their loves, and struggle with retaining their humanity in the face of certain death and the unspeakable horrors of war. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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