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The way war should be shown : Vivid and Horrifying
I had never heard of this film untill I spotted this DVD out of the corner of my eye in the store and bought it, and I am glad I did. This movie has surpassed any previous depiction of the stress and hardship's that the common soldier and civilian alike faced in WW2 that I have ever seen and I felt this is also the first war movie to take the glory out of battle and...
Publié le Fév 9 2004 par Jon
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not worth $45 but read on
I'm not going to bother reviewing this movie because that's just subjective, and anyone looking to purchase this movie for $45.00 has probably seen it already. The dubbing is a joke. Why there would not be a subtitle option on a DVD is beyond me. The DVD is not anamorphic and so the picture quality is not good on a widescreen TV. It is still letterbox at least so this is...
Publié le Fév 17 2005 par J. Tymchyshyn
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not worth $45 but read on, Fév 17 2005
I'm not going to bother reviewing this movie because that's just subjective, and anyone looking to purchase this movie for $45.00 has probably seen it already. The dubbing is a joke. Why there would not be a subtitle option on a DVD is beyond me. The DVD is not anamorphic and so the picture quality is not good on a widescreen TV. It is still letterbox at least so this is better than pan and scan. The transfer is not very good either although I have seen worse. All in all, not worth the $45.00 asking price. The only reason why this DVD is priced that way is because war buffs (like me and you) would actually shell out this amount for this substandard quality product. I would suggest a trip to your local big box electronics store to buy a cheapo DVD player (I spent $60 CND) that will play PAL and other region encoded DVD's. Then go to Amazon.UK and but this DVD for 5 pounds sterling (it will cost about $15 CND with shipping) At the same time you can buy Waterloo (not released in North America) and a better (but not much cheaper)version of Cross of Iron (1977). As well you can also order the excellent "Battlefield" series.
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About as much fun as being there., Jui 25 2004
"Stalingrad" is the most depressing film I've ever seen. Mind you, I didn't think a story about the death of 260,000 German soldiers would be as uplifting as, say, "The Sound of Music" but this movie pulls out all the stops in an effort to leave the viewer a quivering, glassy-eyed emotional pulp.Made by the same producers who gave us the seminal "Das Boot" I found it not in that league. The film is overlong, sterotypical, and spends too much time cramming postwar German conscience pangs down the viewer's throat. Moreover, the last hour or so reminds me of those interminable scenes from "Born on the Fourth of July" that seem more interested in punishing the audience than advancing the story. The battle for, and siege of, Stalingrad, was no doubt an experience of horror and misery beyond the power of words or images to describe it, but what I was hoping for here was a German version of "Saving Private Ryan" -- high on combat and confusion, short on moralizing. Unfortunately, all postwar German cinema is filtered through the same revisionist political opinions; this explains why all German war movies inevitably leave you with the feeling like you've been punched in the stomach or clubbed over the head. After about an hour I was hoisting my own flag of surrender; but the pummeling continued. The scene at the airfield, for example, when the wounded men are trying desperately to get out on the last transports, is very hard to watch. From what I've read, however, it seems that discipline in the Stalingrad pocket was maintained until the bitter end, and the airfield scene may more resemble how the producers of the film wanted history to unfold rather than the actual way it did. In fact, the 90,000 men who lived to surrender (all but 5,000 of whom died in captivity) did so only when they were completely out of fuel, medicine, and ammunition, and had no other means to resist; but the producers, of course, permit to trace of pride in military accomplishment to enter into their film. Most American movies and television portray the Germans in World War II as heel-clicking cartoon idiots ("I know nutink! Nutink!"). Most German war movies portray the Germans as either villainous martinet Nazis, or cynical disbelievers who carry arms only for Germany and not for Hitler or the Party. In fact, the record shows that the Germans overwhelmingly trusted Hitler and were deeply inspired by his ideology. It is this fact, and not what was done in the name of National Socialism, that seems to sit very hard in the modern German stomach.
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Stalingrad, Juil 8 2009
I like the perspective of this movie, in that it details a group of men from a rest area in Italy to the Eastern front, and finally their surrendering to the cold. There were not many movies that depicted the German side of this offensive, especially from the perspective of the men on the front line.
The sub titles can detract a little from the movie, but it still left me with a down to earth view point.
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Very Good movie...not perfect, Janv. 27 2005
In a nut shell ..the movie describe the entire german perspective/situation in Stalingrad..the cold,disease, lack of food, lotting, combat and so forth. So its kinda refreshing in tone instead of watching a USA perspective all the time . I never notice anything bad about the dvd quality....its fine
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What's my motivation to buy this dvd?, Jui 15 2004
Why does this dvd have an english (dubbed) soundtrack only. It was obviously made in german (like Das Boot), so why no german soundtrack available? Surely some people would prefer to watch the film in the original german soundtrack with english subtitles. But no subtitles either! What were the people who compiled this dvd thinking! Why not include the original soundtrack. Surely this was available.
One of the best parts of the film, a scene showing the platoon listening to a speech by Hitler (the actual recording) over an improvised radio, also has no subtitles! So good luck to anyone who would have been interested in knowing what the speech was about. If ever there was a film that could benefit from rudimentary features like a choice of language or subtitles - this is it. Probably one of my favourate war films. Probably the worst DVD in my collection.
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The way war should be shown : Vivid and Horrifying, Fév 9 2004
I had never heard of this film untill I spotted this DVD out of the corner of my eye in the store and bought it, and I am glad I did. This movie has surpassed any previous depiction of the stress and hardship's that the common soldier and civilian alike faced in WW2 that I have ever seen and I felt this is also the first war movie to take the glory out of battle and replace it with the truth "war is hell".I like many other reviewer's here have seen the endless stream of documentories about stalingrad and have heard the accounts from veteran's of the battle and about the horror and suffering that wen't on, but I feel that the word's and tear's from these veteran's never quite sunk in. After seeing this movie I feel like the pain that was depicted has allowed the words of these veteran's to finnally sink in and I have a new understanding of just what these men had endured...and yet I feel like I still dont know the whole truth. This film has a permanent home in my collection....I only regret that this movie was not embraced by the U.S. film industry and shown to a wide audience a long time ago....I recommend that anyone who is fan of war movie's or just curious about the war that changed the world.... this is a movie that you cannot pass up seeing.
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RUN FOR COVER, IT'S VILSMAIER AGAIN !!!!, Fév 9 2004
I am not a fan of Joseph Vilsmaier's films. In fact his dwelling on WW2 and Nazi realted subjects really gets to you. Of all his works Stalingrad stands out as on of those films that are enjoyable to watch if u are into "realistic war movies" (realistic compared to hollywood) but which fall short when it comes to story telling and depth of the subject.Vilsmaier has proven to be pretty superficial and painfully politically correct with his latter work "Comedian Harmonists", a film that is also just a shadow of what it could have been. Fact is that what we see in "Stalingrad" is technically well done considering it's year of release, but does NOT portray the average German soldier on the Eastern front.
What is sickening is the "self hatred" of the Landser shown in this film. Which soldier who is right in his mind admits that "he is a beast trampling on Russian soil" and then cintinues to fight ???? Even more, which soldier who is right in his mind admits that he hates the Nazi regime but continues to fight with all he has got ????
Fact is that many German soldiers simply belived that what they were fighting for was a just cause. Either blinded by propaganda, driven by feelings of revenge or simply naive obedience, no army would have continued to fight so viciously against incredible odds if it was full of "self haters". Fact is that nobody wants to portray "heroes" of a story who obviously are fighting for a bad cause but do not realize it and therefore give it all they got.
Something the numerous Vietnam War films out there tried to do and ended up portraying Nam Vets as drug abusing psycho maniacs and mental wrecks, a trend heavily criticized by vet organizations.The same idiotic trend applies to German soldiers in GERMAN war flicks.
No , the "good guys" are so morally "good" that they preemptively admit their guilt, whereas the copy book nazi officers try one more time to win the "who looks like the Gestapo guy from Raiders of teh Lost Arch"-contest. Nuff said about cliche. The whole movie has a bitter taste to it, and that is the feeling of the German Social Democrat Party (Yes the one's who recently ruined the German economy and send a whole generation out on the dole)having written the script and Jossi Vilsmaier gets the one million Euro German Film Award (Deutscher Filmpreis). When will someone pick up Guy Sajer's "Forgotten Soldier" and put in on the screen ???? That would be a movie that could leave u shattered without any illusions about war.
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One of the best, Janv. 14 2004
There you go, the title says it all.A film worht buying and watching, right from the beginning you are on the tip of your seat as the movie takes you on a stunning and gripping WWII ride. It is good to see movies based on the "other" side of the war, namely the Germans. Joseph Vilsmaier makes history and drama come alive. You follow a "green" officer and veteran Wehrmacht soldiers into the city of chaos and death, Stalingrad.
Some very gripping scenes showing that being human has its flaws and that the only thing on their mind was survival. EXCELLENT !
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Stalincrud., Janv. 9 2004
If there's any truth to this movie, what really destroyed the mighty Wehrmacht at Stalingrad was boredom.
Reasonably respectable, at times even impressive. But, generally turgid and meandering. Also, it takes a simple class approach to Nazi evil, suggesting that the average German soldier was just a hapless victim sent to the front by sadistic and uncaring commanders. If indeed the nature and magnitude of Nazi evil were that simple.
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Cast of Dozens, Déc 20 2003
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To be sure, with 95% of all war movies being garbage, this is a good flick. However, it lost its opportunity for greatness when it passed on being the portrait of a decisive turning point in the world's greatest conflict. Obviously done on a tight budget with limited research, most of the battle sequences are shot nearsighted in scale so few tanks and actors are needed. Street fighting is limited to one brief episode in a factory. The added intrigue of the evil German officer (something out of an Indiana Jones flick) was out of place as well as being inaccurate for that period of the war (that crap started after Hitler's assassination, years later). Missing is the overconfidence and arrogance that turns to surprise and shock with the German's facing their first defeat. Another omission is the bitter determination displayed by well-trained career soldiers who knew they weren't leaving alive. In this film the Germans come off as a retagged bunch of draftees just waiting to lose.
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