Rotten
Too often does [Bondarchuk] goad his characters to brim over with righteous bloodlust-and, despite the occasional obligatory misgiving about the barbarism of war, goads the audience to lust right along with them.
Jesse Hassenger, AV Club
Stalingrad
The epic battle that turned the tide of World War II
2013 · 2h 11m · R
Action, Drama, War
Directed by
Fyodor Bondarchuk
Overview
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
Director and cast
- Fyodor Bondarchuk Director
- Thomas Kretschmann as Kapitan Kan (as Tomas Krechmann)
- Yanina Studilina as Masha
- Philippe Reinhardt as Gottfried
- Heiner Lauterbach as Khenze
- Mariya Smolnikova as Katya
- Andrey Smolyakov as Polyakov
- Sergey Bondarchuk as Sergey Astakhov
- Aleksey Barabash as Nikiforov
- Polina Raykina as Natashka
- Oleg Volku as Krasnov
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
49%
Tomatometer
Rotten
If you thought Saving Private Ryan needed to be more like 300, then Stalingrad is the movie for you.
Bilge Ebiri, New York Magazine/Vulture
Rotten
Overall, Stalingrad is a bizarre concoction, part Putin-era patriotic chest-thumping and part creaky war melodrama, all set in a superbly recreated ruined city.
Liam Lacey, Globe and Mail
Rotten
Stalingrad is long and operatic, but its message is simple enough: War is hell, but hell, it makes for good cinema.
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer
Rotten
To wave a flag, sing a song and celebrate it as the uncomplicated and inevitable victory of good over evil is the sort of easy message only an old propagandist - or a president for life - could really cheer.
Stephen Whitty, Newark Star-Ledger
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