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Article: Stalingrad.(Review)
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- March 22, 1997
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Directed by Joseph Vilsmaier; VHS, color, 150 mins., German with English subtitles. Distributed by Fox Lorber Home Video, 419 Park Avenue South, New York, NY 10016, phone (212) 686-6777.
This is an unrelentingly harrowing war film, told from the German side, from the (frozen) ground up, focusing on an elite battalion as they are smashed by the Red Army into a cold and hungry remnant of deserters-stragglers. As with the riveting Das Boot (also a Bavaria Atelier Production), while I find myself not exactly rooting for the Germans - I know they were stunningly defeated, anyway, and got what they and their war aims deserved - I can't refrain from feeling some ...