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Stalingrad (1990) Online
1990 Powers Boothe Liubomiras Laucevicius Sergey Nikonenko Yuriy Ozerov
Original Title :
Stalingrad
Genre :
Movie / Drama / War
Year :
1990
Directror :
Yuriy Ozerov
Cast :
Powers Boothe,Liubomiras Laucevicius,Sergey Nikonenko
Writer :
Ron Nelson,Yuriy Ozerov
Type :
Movie
Time :
3h 16min
Rating :
7.1/10

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Stalingrad (1990) Online

A sequel of "Bitva za Moskvu" (1985). The film is set in the Russian city of Stalingrad on the river Volga in 1942-1943. The Nazi Armies are over one million strong, when they reach Volga at Stalingrad, where the WWII pivotal battle is unfolding. The battle becomes the biggest military event in the history of WWII. Despite the immeasurable human losses on both sides, the battle is going on for many months, fueled by the draft and military propaganda from the leaders. After having the big city totally destroyed, the invading Nazi Armies are defeated and reduced to one hundred thousand POWs. The battle is shown through the eyes of the soldiers and officers on both German and Russian sides of the war.
Cast overview, first billed only:
Powers Boothe Powers Boothe - General Cuikov
Liubomiras Laucevicius Liubomiras Laucevicius - Comissar Gurov (as Liubomiras Lauciavicius)
Sergey Nikonenko Sergey Nikonenko - General Rodimtsev
Fernando Allende Fernando Allende - Ruben Ibarruri
Mikhail Ulyanov Mikhail Ulyanov - Marshal Zhukov
Günter Junghans Günter Junghans - Harro Schulze-Boisen
Archil Gomiashvili Archil Gomiashvili - Josef Stalin
Valeri Tsvetkov Valeri Tsvetkov - General Eremenko
Boris Nevzorov Boris Nevzorov - Krylov
Bruno Frejndlikh Bruno Frejndlikh - Marshal Shaposhnikov
Vadim Lobanov Vadim Lobanov - Nikita Khrushchev
Vitali Rosstalnoy Vitali Rosstalnoy - General Timoshenko
Achim Petry Achim Petry - Adolf Hitler
Aleksandr Goloborodko Aleksandr Goloborodko - General Rokossovsky
Yevgeni Burenkov Yevgeni Burenkov - General Vasilevsky

Due to the harsh economic conditions in the late 1980s Soviet Union, Yuriy Ozerov was unable to secure funding for his film inside the USSR. After deliberations, he approached the American Warner Brothers for assistance. The company agreed to provide financial support, but demanded that American actors would be given representation. The reluctant director had to cast Powers Boothe for the title role of General Vasily Chuikov. The film was the first Soviet-American co-production in the Perestroika era.

Soviet Army soldiers and officers were extras.


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Judging by the commentary, everyone is confusing this movie with Stalingrad (1993) by Joseph Vilsmaier. This is NOT the story from German perspective. This is a soviet-style epic, typical of Ozerov's work. This means we are shown a Soviet textbook illustration, nothing too emotional here, even the scene of NKVD officer shooting the soldiers who lost their guns in Kharkov retreat.

The year of production is 1989, the times of "perestroika", so Ozerov goes a little bold here, depicting briefly something that Brezhnev times did not like to mention, i.e. the tremendous defeat under Kharkov, due to total incompetence of Stalin & co. Nevertheless, the rest of the approach is still the same old beaten one - see 'Osvobozhdenie', etc.

Germans are a bit caricature, Hitler, in particular. Stalin is your textbook Stalin. Churchill doesn't look like Churchill. Ozerov's style makes all the persons on the screen as illustrations, unemotional, not too human in a way, just automatons that speak and move about. There are few exceptions, but overall this is how it goes. This is very typical of the war epic Soviet style. Big brush strokes, lots of voice-overs that sound like Sovinformbureau reports, etc. Recreation of history is a noble goal, but what Ozerov manages to create is yet another myth. The real war was a much dirtier, bloodier and crazier affair than what we see on the screen here. Stalingrad was hell on earth where two sides fought for days for every remnants of a brick wall. It is hard to imagine, and even harder to portray. And the broader historical perspective was much more complex and very different. For example, the command staff in the movie is all about Zhukov again, when the real hero among the commanders was Chuikov. etc, etc.

I really despise everything that Ozerov created on screen. These are the worst examples of soviet cinema. There are so many great soviet movies about the war, but everything that this guy created without shame is just rotten to the core.
Jerinovir

Jerinovir

Captures the war the Germans took to Russia. The discipline the Germans began with slowly falls apart. Overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of Russian soldiers, the duplicity of their own officers and the incredible winter weather, the 400 soldiers we follow are reduced to nothing.

Memorable characters.