Originally posted by gabriel
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I feel that the movie was a cheap Hollywood money sink designed to cater western perceptions of the Red Army. The protrayal of the Red Army as an inept, bumbling force relying on sheer numbers to overwhelm the Germans is a complete lie in so far as Stalingrad is concerned. How could Chuikov made human wave assaults on the Germans when he was outnumbered two to one? More aggrevatingly the battle was filmed to look as if it was a third world civil war fought by handfuls of troops in an empty city. The sheer ferocity of rifle regiments battling for city blocks and companies for mere rooms is the most important thing about Stalingrad and they missed that.
I recall the German film Stalingrad was somewhat better in that regard. Still, I haven't seen anything on film to capture that.
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