The Battle of Stalingrad

The Battle of Stalingrad (1949)

Сталинградская битва

A 1949 two-part Soviet epic war film about the Battle of Stalingrad.

Date of release
1949-11-11
TMDB
4.0 / 10 (10)
Runtime
3h 3m
Genres
Action, Drama, History, War
Director
Vladimir Petrov

Casting

Interesting facts

The Battle of Stalingrad is a 1949 two-part Soviet war film about the Battle of Stalingrad, directed by Vladimir Petrov. The script was written by Nikolai Virta.

Production

The film is the last of the 'Artistic Documentaries', a series of propaganda epics that recreated the history of the Second World War with a Stalinist interpretation of the events. Like all of the other films in the genre, The Battle of Stalingrad consists mainly of battle scenes and staff meetings, reconstructing the campaign from the point of view of the soldiers and the generals, in a heroic manner fitting the state's ideology.

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