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An Exercise In Nonsense

All of these films share one commonality, that being a kind of emotional center that humanizes a cast of monsters.

This a very tense movie where two symbols of the war fight each other. It's a very good film to feel the tensions between Germany and Russia during WW2. And to see the organisation and the ideology of Russia during this war. But it's sometimes a little too dramatic and I think it's not always realistic. Even if the end of the movie it's satisfying, it's because the movie shows a bad image of the Germany.

Movie Review: "Stalingrad" (1993)Shot on exterior locations in Finland and Czech Republic in 1992 to find completion at Bavaria Filmstudios Munich for heart-striking release in January 1993 preliminary in a German theater exhibitions, "Stalingrad" directed by Jospeh Vilsmaier, at age 53, delivers with "Das Boot" (1981-1985) mimicking "World-War-2" character portrayals, led by committed German soldiers-playing actors Dominique Horwitz and Thomas Kretschmann as Fritz & Hans in constant war-action-pounding charges to an inevitable historic Farsided Eastern front of Nationalsocial-invasion into Russian territory, when in late 1943 the expanding German military turns to the worse in horrific losses, presented in highly-authentic image system out of machine gun shoot-outs, burning factory buildings, recalling the superior shot Vietnam-war-action film "Full Metal Jacket" directed by Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999); further highlighting moments of an allied tank platoon pushing to opposite-sided borders in thick snow-hazard visuals under hammer-falling sound design, when producer Hanno Huth, who also executive-produced director Peter Jackson's breakthrough into classic drama in season 1993/1994 with "Heavenly Creatures" starring Kate Winslet; the producer, who then ensures a fully-independent budget in inflation-adjusted region from ten to fifteen Million euros in today's world of 2018, when director Joseph Vilsmaier keeps the camera moving, characters clashing, a war machine turning, but leaves the devastation of a mindless-storming attempt to a treaty-defying offense in "World-War-II" transforming to hopelessly-cruel measures with no emotional relief of any kind.© 2018 Felix Alexander Dausend (Cinemajesty Entertainments LLC)

You could literally say that it was, well, frozen hell. It is a brilliant depiction of the horrors of a war, the Battle of Stalingrad, and how the reality is far different to the concept of heroism, the glorification of war and all that nonsense. It is a great example of how the army generals, the heads of the state rest in their homes and give directives to do this and that, and see it all is some sort of sacred and holy undertaking, but on the battlefield it is bloody, it is scary and not to be glorified in the first place.The film is a very sad one.... It hits you with reality. It revolves around soldiers who are tired of the nonsense, want to go home, be with their families and are looking for ways and excuses to escape from the horror. Their conscious does not bother them, it does not call them cowards, for above all they are humans first, like us, they do not want to be killed and tortured, they do not want to play with blood all the time. This is the reality, heroes-like soldiers is greatly imaginary. The ending scene where they die in the cold is one of the saddest scenes that I have ever watched. It had such sever after-effects on me that I thought of this all night. A brilliant scene!A great film overall but the blot on it had to be that it took too long to materialise and get to the main point, the point mentioned above. The battle scenes last for too long and that is something that I do not appreciate much.

Let me start this review by saying that I am generally not too big on war films. I am pretty interested in politics though, but the depiction of actual battle scenes has never done too much for really. Luckily, this film is more than that. During its over 2 hours it does not only show bloody fights, but also delivers pretty good character evaluations and a smart approach to the idea of how to depict the very well-known fact that war is evil. This is about the battle of Stalingrad, maybe the most known battle in World War II, because it basically destroyed Germany's hopes of winning the War. "It" is the Russian winter in this case and the fact that German soldiers just weren't ready to deal with the heavy climate conditions. A bit of an irony that it happened right at the city that is named after the Russian leader at that time. But lets get back to the film. The director is Joseph Vilsmaier and at least people with an interest in German films should know him. He has worked in film since the very early 1970s and was also a co-writer with a couple other guys for this film here. The cast includes some known names, but nobody really where you would say "oh it's him". The most known of these today, almost 25 years later is probably Sylvester Groth. The only significant female character is played by Vilsmaier's wife Dana Vavrova, who sadly died far too young from cancer. This is certainly one of Germany's best (anti-)war films and if you appreciate the genre more than I do, you may actually have a pretty great time watching this one. The acting is fine, the character are relatable and memorable and it's really well done by Vilsmaier so that we can watch a credible tale of how they were not only struggling with their enemies, but also with other people in the German army and as a whole with their lives (as soldiers) in general. Thumbs up.