Synopsis
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
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Cast
- Thomas KretschmannKapitan Kan
- Yanina StudilinaMasha
- Philippe ReinhardtGottfried
- Heiner LauterbachKhenze
- Mariya SmolnikovaKatya
- Andrey SmolyakovPolyakov
- Oleg VolkuKrasnov
- Pyotr FyodorovKapitan Gromov
- Sergey BondarchukSergey Astakhov
- Dmitry LysenkovChvanov
Recommendations
- 70
Village Voice
Lush with feeling that could easily be mistaken for sentimentality, Stalingrad is more like a 19th-century novel than a 21st-century blockbuster. It's theatrical and intense, sometimes in an overbearing way, but it's never boring. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It is a strange cross-breed between an old-fashioned WWII epic full of genre cliches and a modern update whose meticulous historical recreation is frighteningly real. - 70
Village Voice
Lush with feeling that could easily be mistaken for sentimentality, Stalingrad is more like a 19th-century novel than a 21st-century blockbuster. It's theatrical and intense, sometimes in an overbearing way, but it's never boring. - 70
The Hollywood Reporter
It is a strange cross-breed between an old-fashioned WWII epic full of genre cliches and a modern update whose meticulous historical recreation is frighteningly real. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Stalingrad is a 3-D epic that's one-dimensional. - 67
Entertainment Weekly
Stalingrad is a 3-D epic that's one-dimensional. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
In detail and combat spectacle, Stalingrad is hard to beat. And whatever its failings, one can’t help but be curious about a story as connected to national identity as this one, a film that like today’s Russia, feels more Soviet than Russian. - 63
McClatchy-Tribune News Service
In detail and combat spectacle, Stalingrad is hard to beat. And whatever its failings, one can’t help but be curious about a story as connected to national identity as this one, a film that like today’s Russia, feels more Soviet than Russian.
