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 Stalingrad (2013) Stalingrad (2013) Quote: Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) is a 2013 Russian war drama film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. This is the first Russian movie completely produced with IMAX 3D technology and shot using 3ality Technica's TS-5 and Stereoscopic Image Processor. At the same time, this project is the first Russian and non-American film produced using the IMAX format. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd and October in Russia before spreading out worldwide in subsequent months. 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 about The Battle of Stalingrad (August 23, 1942 – February 2, 1943), a major battle of World War II in which Nazi Germany and its allies fought the Soviet Union for control of the city of Stalingrad (now Volgograd) in the southwestern Soviet Union. Marked by constant close quarters combat and disregard for military and civilian casualties, it is among the bloodiest battles in the history of warfare. The heavy losses inflicted on the Wehrmacht make it arguably the most strategically decisive battle of the whole war. It was a turning point in the European theatre of World War II–the German forces never regained the initiative in the East and withdrew a vast military force from the West to reinforce their losses.
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David
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) An overinflated, propagandist piece of horse shit. Stalingrad the film turns the ultra-violent five-month conflict, a fight credited with turning the tide of the Second World War in Europe, into an interminable video game posing as cinema. The characters are one-note. Each is an interchangeable monument (either to Soviet courage and romance or German inhumanity) rather than a living-and-breathing human being, and the film utilizes a hilarious tactic in which quote-unquote ferocious or tragic moments are paired with melodramatic stories told via voice-over. As one Soviet soldier evades gunfire, for example, the audience learns German soldiers previously raped his sister and left her for dead in a pigsty. A pigsty! The dialogue is risible in general, from a shoehorned-in romance to a tendency to lapse into vomit-inducing sentimental soliloquy, not to mention the strangest and most arbitrary present-day framing device I can remember. Every combat sequence is presented in the slow-motion-fast-motion-slow-motion (with extra blood flow) style of the 300 franchise, rendering 20th-century history a type of brutal cartoon. No character can die without flying into the air with Matrix-style grace or gloriously, slowly falling to his or her knees. This artificial quality extends to the heavy use of expensive, yet unconvincing computer-generated imagery to render the flaming, ruined cityscape. Truly an unpleasant, ugly, misguided, lumbering film, made worse by the fact it is completely self-assured and self-important.
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Caius
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) I hope Mr. R does not step into this thread.
Considered watching this film since the Soviets, as much as I hate them, were rather brilliant at Stalingrad but I was worried that it would be a propagandize film.
Thanks for the review and I will pass.
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) Why do you hate the Soviets?
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Caius
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Dr. Lecter
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) Okay, but that has nothing to do with the people who were living, fighting and dying during WWII or the Soveits themselves. That has to do with the Soviet government.
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Caius
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) Dr. Lecter wrote: Okay, but that has nothing to do with the people who were living, fighting and dying during WWII or the Soveits themselves. That has to do with the Soviet government. I meant the Government--I do not hate people in the collective, I hate ideas and actions of individual people. The Soviet people in WWII were exposed to historically brutal repression and slaughter (from the Nazis and their own government) and in the latter half of the war, mostly after Stalingrad, at least militarily, performed brilliantly.
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David
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Re: Stalingrad (2013) The last line of this film is amusing: in voice-over, 'Due to the many sacrifices and acts of heroism at Stalingrad, today people in our great country do not know war.'
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