Stalingrad

Title: Stalingrad

Tagline: The Epic Battle That Turned The Tide Of World War II.

Genre: War, Action

Director: Fyodor Bondarchuk

Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Yanina Studilina, Philippe Reinhardt, Heiner Lauterbach, Maria Smolnikova, Andrey Smolyakov, Polina Raykina, Oleg Volku, Pyotr Fyodorov, Sergey Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Lysenkov, Aleksei Barabash, Anna von Haebler, Yuriy Nazarov, Mariya Sittel, Petar Zekavica, Dmitriy Kochkin, Georges Devdariani, Christoph Gawenda, Oksana Bazilevich, Svetlana Svirko, Nataliya Kadochnikova, Valentin Kuznetsov, Roman Likhodeev, Aleksandr Suvorov, Ivan Debov, Mikhail Bogdanov, Evgeniy Levitskiy, Oleg Tilkin, Maksim Yakovlev, Kirill Varaksa, Nodari Dzhanelidze, Yan Kuzmin, Aleksandr Pangaev, Aleksandr Ivanov, Yuriy Utkin, Aleksandr Petrov, Sergey Trebesov, Nikolay Pavlov, Sergey Petrov, Evgeniy Tsurko, Vladimir Shagin

Release Date: 2013-10-09

Runtime: 131

Plot: Drama set in 1942, during one of the most important battles of World War II, which stopped the progress of Nazi forces and turned the tide of war in favor of the Allies. The Soviet army mounts a counter-attack on the Nazi forces that occupy half of Stalingrad on the other side of the Volga, but the operation to cross the river is unsuccessful. A few soldiers who managed to get to the other side take refuge in a house on the bank of Volga. Here they find a girl who didn’t escape when the Germans came. While the whole might of the German army descends onto them, the heroes of Stalingrad experience love, loss, joy and the sense of ultimate freedom that can only be felt by those about to die. They defend the house at all costs while the Red Army prepares for another attack.

I dont know why it was rated so low. Maybe because it is a foreign movie? I give it a 4. It had a $30 million budget.