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Jan 7, 2024 · “Stalingrad” goes beyond the battles to explore the human stories within the war. The film’s characters, representing various facets of the German soldier’s experience, bring a personal dimension to the historical events. Their journey from initial confidence to eventual despair mirrors the tragic trajectory of the battle itself.
Jan 21, 1993 · Stalingrad: Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. With Dominique Horwitz, Thomas Kretschmann, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph. The story follows a group of German soldiers, from their Italian R&R in the summer of 1942 to the frozen steppes of Soviet Russia and ending with the battle for Stalingrad.
- (38K)
- Drama, War
- Joseph Vilsmaier
- 1993-01-21
Russian. Box office. $10 million [2] Stalingrad is a 1993 German anti-war film directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It follows a platoon of German Army soldiers transferred to the Eastern Front of World War II, where they find themselves fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad . The film is the second German movie to portray the Battle of Stalingrad.
The German 6th Army surrendered in the Battle of Stalingrad, 91,000 of the survivors became prisoners of war raising the number to 170,000 in early 1943, but 85,000 died in the months following their capture at Stalingrad, with only approximately 6,000 of them surviving to be repatriated after the war.
Jun 21, 2022 · Even after the German 6th Army was completely surrounded at Stalingrad, the army was still granting leave to its soldiers to visit Germany. The ones that were able to get out were considered the luckiest of the 210,000 Germans there. 105,000 surrendered to the Red Army, 35,000 left by air, 10,000 escaped and 60,000 were killed in the pocket.
The movie’s focal point is a duel between Soviet sniper Vasiliy Zaitsev (Jude Law) and his German counterpart, Major Erwin König (Ed Harris), which really took place during the Stalingrad ...
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August 1942. A German combat engineer platoon is resting and recuperating in Italy after fighting in North Africa. Their Lieutenant was badly wounded in the fighting and a new, green, platoon commander, Lt Hans van Witzland, has just taken command. The platoon is soon to be attached to an elite unit and sent to a place synonymous with carnage ...
