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Thanks for the memories!

Surprisingly incoherent and boring

A lot more amusing than I thought it would be.

This film is so real. It treats its characters with so much care and sensitivity.

"Stalingrad" is a German mini-series that consists of 3 episodes that run between 40 and 45 minutes at least in the German version. I think the English-language version is even a bit longer, but still nothing you couldn't watch in one sitting as in any case it will stay under the 3-hour mark comfortably. It's a historic documentary about the days of World War II of course and the crucial battle in the Soviet Union that basically decided the War in favor of the Allies and the Soviet Union. And that's why of course Guido Knopp is also on board of this small screen production as usual. Another fairly well-known name here is Sebastian Dehnhardt, who managed a decent breakthrough with 2 sports documentaries in the years after this one here. Here he was really just one of many. Anyway, I think this was a good and insightful watch from start to finish and really informative. The middle part ("Kessel") was probably the best of the entire thing as it did not only deliver convincingly in terms of interviews, old audio recordings, old video recordings etc. but also made an impact in terms of emotional situations as luckily nothing about this documentary feels staged or scripted (apart from the informative parts of course). As a whole, I quite enjoyed a watch and I can see why this one here is so much more known the the gigantic amount of other WWII documentaries and I don't think at all that many mistook this one for the feature film from a decade earlier that has the same name. I highly recommend the watch here. Go check it out.

This is a conventional and limited treatment of an extraordinary subject. It is conventional in its use of film and is limited to the suffering caused by war. It is a film that deals with a battle only in a broad and almost incidental sense: Suffering is the exhaustive theme.One film would have been adequate to see alternately survivors sat in artfully dimmed spaces emotionally and repetitively recounting suffering and footage of people on the move or killed. To make the point and lather it home we get the clichéd Volga vistas and stirring orchestral music, too.Film should be employed innovatively (or not) to match the subject - be it suffering or the account of a siege and urban warfare. These films deal with the former blandly and little with the latter. If we are not to become inured to suffering then director's please rise to the occasion.

Stalingrad named so by supreme leader of Russia Joseph Stalin, for his personal favorite city on the Volga River. STALINGRAD appeared on TV as a three episode documentary. A definite stark look at World War Two as it was dragging to an end. This 156 minute documentary features newsreel footage, military footage from both sides and films from actual soldiers of the war. Interviews with survivors of that war at times is heartfelt. The city was picked by a delusional Adolph Hitler as he saw the capture of Stalingrad as the possible crowning event to his victory in the war. The ego-maniacal leader had little concern that his German 6th Army was running out of fuel and food. Tanks were running out of fuel withing sight of the city. These soldiers were already starving before they managed to cross the Volga. The battle raged for about six months finally concluding in February of 1943. At one time the Nazis controlled 90% of the city, but a tenacious throng of Soviet defenders managed to surround the 6th Army that finally quit fighting all together for Hitler. No help was coming and there was little regard from Hitler, believing that his troops should be steadfast with willpower as they took part in one of the bloodiest battles on the Eastern Front. A bombed-out city was not about to be taken by the Germans.

I saw this docu several years ago and until this day I have never seen a better documentary. Detailed reports with many survivors, Russian as well as German and even civilians who still lived in Stalingrad during this terrible battle.The true power of this documentary are the survivors. When a certain German soldier told his story how he was able to get out of this hell on earth (wounded) he told it with so much heart and soul when he cried, I cried.This may sound silly but it moved me in a way a docu never had done before. It puts back the Humans in the story... not just The Evil Germans or The Brave Russians (as seen in many documentaries) no it shows the human horror, the pain, the hunger the sorrow...If you have the chance to see it DO IT... I was lucky because the Dutch TV broad casted this 3 part masterpiece. And if anybody knows where I could get in (in the Netherlands) PLEASE HELP ME OUT. I want to show parts of this when I become a teacher(2 more years of school)THNX ! And to all the survivors who worked on this: Thank you for shedding a (your) human light on this horrible war which, I see daily, many children forget or don't care about anymore, this makes a difference.