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FEAST Kinoma - Stalingrad |
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Written by Mad Onion
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Thursday, 11 September 2008 11:41 |
2 February 2008 marked the 65th anniversary of the end of the battle of Stalingrad, also known as the battle on the Volga, one of the biggest strategic operations of World War II. When ran from 17 July 1942 a fierce defense led by Soviet troops and marshals Wasilewski Jeromienki Voronov and generals, and Rokossovsky Watutina passed in mid-November for a counteroffensive, and destroyed a cluster surrounded the German army in the strength of 330 thousand. men, commanded by General Friedrich Paulus. In total, the German side lost within several months of hostilities more than a million soldiers, only six survived. This battle became the turning point of World War II because the Germans received a strategic initiative. To this day, the word "Stalingrad" is used in the German language to describe a spectacular disaster, painful defeat.
Screen reconstructions of those dramatic events took on Joseph Vilsmaier, a famous German film director and cinematographer, creator of such films as "Tail sextet," "Marlene," "milk soup" or "Sleep, the brother of death." His epic battle ponaddwugodzinny premiered at the 50th anniversary of the famous battle. The budget of USD 20 million allowed the momentum needed for filming scenes of battle and the care taken in restoring the realities of war. "Stalingrad" - as all the great things about the war-makers - has a decidedly anti-war pronunciation. The course of events we see through the eyes of four German soldiers from the same branch, the direct participants in this great battle. As the share arrogant winners turn into demoralized cowards who by all means fight for survival. Few "fair" remains bitter satisfaction that they were right, although it still does not protect from death. The year is 1942. Another victory in the Nazi troops reinforce Führer and his countrymen the conviction of invincibility of the German army. But for Hitler's most important strategic objective for the coming fall and winter is to capture Stalingrad, a major industrial center on the lower Volga. Fighting on the eastern front four sappers: endowed with a cheerful disposition Corporal Fritz Reiser, cynical and irascible Manfred "Rollo" Rohleder, a young idealist with an aristocratic family - Lt. Hans von Witzland and ward Gege private companies have been involved on the front lines in many battles. Experienced wojacy with surprise and bitterness listen to one of Hitler's Munich beer hall speeches conveying arrogant quick victory his troops at Stalingrad. They have no illusions that awaits their toughest test, one of the bloodiest battles of the past. Soon the entire four-, and thousands of their fellow begins, the crackling frost and starvation, desperate fight for survival in the hell of Stalingrad.
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