Stalingrad (2013)
| Movie | |
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| German title | Stalingrad |
| Original title | Сталинград |
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| Country of production | Russia |
| original language | Russian , German |
| Publishing year | 2013 |
| length | 135 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
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| Director | Fyodor Bondarchuk |
| script |
Ilya Tilkin Sergei Snezhkin |
| production |
Alexander Rodnjanski Dmitri Rudowski Sergei Melkumow |
| music | Angelo Badalamenti |
| camera | Maxim Osadtschi |
| cut | Igor Litoninskiy |
| occupation | |
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Stalingrad ( Russian Сталинград ) is a Russian drama film by director Fyodor Bondarchuk about the Battle of Stalingrad . It is the first Russian film to be shot entirely in 3D technology . It is also the first Russian and non-American film to use the IMAX format. The first performance took place in September 2013 . The film was proposed for Best Foreign Film at the 86th Academy Awards in 2014 , but was not nominated.
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action
The main plot is embedded in a scene that is faded in as the opening sequence of the film and shows a Russian rescue operation during the Japanese Tohoku earthquake and the Fukushima nuclear disaster in 2011 when a group of German children was rescued. A doctor from the rescue team tells the trapped children in ruins about the experiences during the Battle of Stalingrad 70 years ago and begins to tell a story.
In late autumn 1942, the Soviet soldier Gromov was given the task of scouting out an approach route for a counter-offensive on the western bank of the Volga , in the burning urban area of Stalingrad, with his five-man scout team. When crossing the river, they are discovered by the Wehrmacht units, which attack the ships and boats of the Red Army soldiers with StuKas . To prevent the Soviets from forming a bridgehead , Captain Kahn detonates a fuel depot. While the Red Army soldiers manage to break into the first German trenches, the majority of them burn in the process. The Gromow scout team managed to escape the inferno and moved into a half-destroyed house near Red Square, which was located in a kind of "no man's land" and served as a shelter for a small group of civilians. a. the orphaned 18-year-old girl Katja.
Largely cut off from his own units, Gromov formed a mixed combat group from reconnaissance and marines who joined the men a little later. Russians and Germans are in a kind of stalemate , as the special location of the asymmetrical front in the ruined houses means that neither side can bring about a decision. The group's sniper can observe all movements of the Germans from his observation post with the telescopic sight of his Mosin-Nagant rifle. He also teaches Katja how to use the rifle and kills a German soldier with her first sharp shot. The situation escalates when a Jewish woman is burned with flamethrowers in Red Square, triggering a retaliatory attack by the Russians. There were numerous other skirmishes between the Soviet defenders and German attackers.
During the breaks between the fighting, a double love story develops between Katja and a Soviet reconnaissance officer and between the German Wehrmacht officer Peter Kahn and the Russian Mascha, who is hiding in the cellar of the neighboring house. While Katja develops into a kind of "mascot" for the house defenders, the relationship between Mascha and Kahn, who cannot communicate with each other, begins with a rape. Kahn, who comes from a respected Prussian family, reflects on his attitude towards the war and tells Mascha that she looks similar to his wife who died of pulmonary tuberculosis . After that, despite the absurd situation, both develop feelings for each other. Kahn supplies his lover with food and protects her from dangers that threaten her on the one hand as a possible spy from the Russian side and on the other hand through expulsion and death by the Germans.
The fanatical and sadistic lieutenant colonel Hans discovers the love affair between Kahn and Mascha and relentlessly urges his unit to destroy the "Russian barbarians" and to clean up the Red Square. When the civilians of Stalingrad are driven to the train station in an evacuation operation and face an uncertain fate, Kahn saves Mascha from the crowd with a Kettenkrad . Kahn escapes his impending execution for " collaboration with the enemy" by assuring the lieutenant colonel that he will occupy the nest of resistance. Captain Kahn starts his unit and swears them to the upcoming fight. After Kahn has confessed his love to Mascha and wants to bring her to a vacant house to safety, she is killed by Tschawanow with a sniper rifle.
While the German tanks are getting ready, German raiding troops penetrate the occupied house from the flank. Gromow disguises himself as a corpse with the blood of a fallen German soldier and is able to surprise and overwhelm some of the attackers on the first floor. Gromow catches Kahn, but Kahn manages to escape when Gromow rescues Tschawanow from a German soldier. During an interrogation, the captured Nikiforov stabbed Lieutenant Colonel Hans. Kahn takes the initiative and orders a tank commander to fire a targeted shot at the floor on which the Soviet observation post has set up. Protected by the tanks, which are shooting the house ready for assault, the German infantry approaches the building.
In the final fight, Kahn and Gromow face each other and both were fatally injured with pistol shots. Under the cover word "Kaluga" ( sturgeon ), the last surviving Soviet scout Astachow made radio contact with the division and requested an artillery strike against the house and Red Square in order to destroy the German units. The house collapses and only Katja, who was previously taken by Astachow to a neighboring house, survives.
In the end, the framework story is resumed in the Japanese earthquake area. The five German children are saved by the Russian doctor: he is Katja's son.
background
script
The script is based on an idea by Ilya Tilkin and Sergei Sneschkin and does not use any literary models. The scriptwriters were inspired by diaries and reports from battle participants and evaluated documents from archives.
“For the reason that I continue to work on this project, I read all the history of the Battle of Stalingrad. From the “Stalingrad” by Antony Beevor and “In the Trenches of Stalingrad” by Nekrasov to the “Iron Cross” by Wilhelm Heinrich and “Life and Fate” by Vasily Grossman. ”
“In order to continue working on the project, I read everything about the history of the Battle of Stalingrad. Starting with 'Stalingrad' by Antony Beevor and 'In den Trengen von Stalingrad' by Nekrassow up to ' Das Eiserne Kreuz ' by Wilhelm Heinrich and 'Leben und Schicksal' by Wassili Grossman "
“Stalingrad has become hell and paradise for those who were worthy of awards, but the only reward they managed to get was love. How they won, and how they were not defeated, who they were and who was on the other side of the street, what secret they have taken away with them - the movie will tell this story. "
“Stalingrad became hell and paradise for those who deserved awards, but the only reward they could get was love. How they won, how they weren't defeated, who they were and who was sitting across the street, what secret they took with them - the film will tell that story. "
“ The war was fought by people, there were people on both sides , says actor Andrei Smoljakow . Our job is to report what happened to them. The war creates a completely different mental and psychological state that leads people to do things they would never have been able to do. "
The plot of the film aims to tell a "love story against the backdrop of a great battle". The action begins in 1942 with the attack by German forces on the western Volga near Stalingrad . When crossing the Volga , the Red Army suffered heavy losses. The longest part of the film depicts the fighting over a house on the main square of the city defended by a small Soviet troop. The description is based on the historical battle for the Pavlov House , one of the last defensive positions in downtown Stalingrad. Among the civilians trying to survive in the midst of house-to-house fighting is a young girl who falls in love with one of the Red Army soldiers and stays with the soldiers. The story is presented as a kind of modern fairy tale and tells of love, war and death, friendship and betrayal.
Production and shooting
The film was produced by Alexander Rodnjanski, Dmitri Rudowski, Sergei Melkumow and Natalia Gorina with the participation of the companies Art Pictures Group, Non-Stop Production and TRK Rossija 1. It is distributed by Sony Pictures and Columbia Pictures. The production cost is given as 30 million US dollars . At the box office, 66.1 million US dollars have already been grossed.
The first part of the shooting began in autumn 2011 and lasted 17 days. During this time, two key episodes of the film were recorded, with over 900 extras starring in the crowd scenes. Most of the shooting took place from May to the end of July 2012.
The monumental scenes of the Stalingrad Battle were filmed in the old factory "Krasny Treugolnik" ( Красны Треуголник ) near St. Petersburg and in the third north fortress near Kronstadt . The backdrop of the city center of Stalingrad and the buildings of the western Volga ridge was modeled in great detail to reproduce the epic and extensive character of the battle. The construction of the backdrop took six months, was carried out by 400 people and cost over 120 million rubles .
The elaborate 3D film recordings were made digitally with the original device of the Hollywood production company 3ALITY, using different perspectives and reflections. Stalingrad is available in IMAX 3D, 3D and 2D formats. The images in the film are mostly gray due to the constant rain of ash, interrupted by the red glow of the numerous fires in the city and the muzzle flashes of the submachine guns. The German dialogues are underlaid with Russian subtitles.
occupation
Fyodor Bondarchuk and Thomas Kretschmann had previously acted in films in which the Battle of Stalingrad served as a backdrop. Bondartschuk starred in the 1989 film Stalingrad , with Juri Oserow as director, Kretschmann played Lieutenant Hans von Witzland in Vilsmaier's drama Stalingrad from 1993. Til Schweiger had previously turned down the role of Wehrmacht officer Kahn.
publication
Stalingrad was presented to veterans of the Battle of Stalingrad in Volgograd on September 27, 2013 . The Russian theatrical release was on October 10, 2013, the film was shown in other Eastern European countries in the following weeks. In Germany, the film was not shown in theaters, but was released on November 27, 2014 on DVD and Blu-ray .
Reviews
Film critics rated Stalingrad mostly negatively. Shallow dialogues, a plot overloaded with special effects and action, sometimes grotesque-looking, and exaggerated pathos were criticized. In addition, the state co-financed film is completely in line with official cultural policy. In Russia, the portrayal of the love affair between a Russian and a German has sometimes met with criticism. The Russian Minister of Culture Vladimir Medinsky welcomed the nomination of the film as a Russian candidate for the Oscar abroad and praised it very much.
“ The first Russian film to be shot entirely in 3D is an odd cross between an old-fashioned World War II epic full of genre clichés and a modern rewrite whose meticulous historical reprocessing feels terribly real. "
“ 'Stalingrad' is big, loud and full of explosions. It is also overflowing with stereotypes and lacks any characterization that is more than a millimeter thick. "
“ 'Grotesque', 'hellish nonsense', 'beautiful pictures, but narrated emotionless and empty', 'flat dialogues' - experts gave such comments to theirs after a press screening in the presence of director Fyodor Bondarchuk (46, 'The Ninth Company') Editorial offices. The applause before the official premiere on Wednesday evening was short and quiet. "
Web links
- Stalingrad in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Notes and individual references
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- ↑ www.moviepilot.de - Stalingrad ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Russia's STALINGRAD to be released in IMAX 3D format October 2013
- ↑ Hollywood Reporter: Ambitious Russian 3D War Drama 'Stalingrad' Begins Filming , August 25, 2011
- ↑ Hollywood Reporter: Oscars: Russia Selects Fyodor Bondarchuk's 'Stalingrad' for Foreign Language Category September 21, 2013
- ^ RIA Novosti Russia Nominates WWII Movie 'Stalingrad' for Oscars , September 21, 2013
- ↑ www.screendaily.com Stalingrad
- ↑ MDZ Moscow - Play me a song of death
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966566/
- ↑ http://de.euronews.com/2013/10/04/stalingrad-der-erste-russische-3d-film/
- ↑ www.warhistoryonline.com World War II Drama Stalingrad Chosen by Russia for Oscars , September 26, 2013
- ↑ www.filmstarts.de - The Second World War as "300" looks: New trailer for Stalingrad with Thomas Kretschmann and August Diehl , news from November 13, 2013
- ↑ Northern Forts of Kronstadt
- ↑ RT Russia's first big-budget 3D movie shootings over ( Memento of the original from November 4, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , August 16, 2012
- ↑ Stalingrad to IMAX 3D experience ( Memento of the original from December 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ www.moviepilot.de - Stalingrad ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1966566/releaseinfo?ref_=tt_ov_inf/
- ↑ Russian film: Stalingrad turns into hellish nonsense in the cinema , Die WELT, by Julia Smirnova, October 3, 2013
- ↑ a b http://www.filmstarts.de/kritiken/201400/pressespiegel/
- ↑ DPA-Starline: Film: “Stalingrad” as a cinema event in 3D in Russia. In: Focus Online . October 2, 2013, accessed October 14, 2018 .
