Stalingrad (2013 film)
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| Directed by | Fedor Bondarchuk |
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Alexander Rodnyansky Dmitriy Rudovskiy Sergey Melkumov Natalia Gorina Steve Schklair (3D Producer) |
| Written by | Ilya Tilkin Sergey Snezhkin |
| Starring |
Petr Fedorov Yanina Studilina Dmitriy Lysenkov Aleksey Barabash Andrey Smolyakov Maria Smolnikova Vladimir Kurlovich Thomas Kretschmann Heiner Lauterbach Daniel Moorehead |
| Music by | Angelo Badalamenti |
| Cinematography | Maksim Osadchiy |
| Edited by | Natalia Gorina |
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Russia Sony Pictures Releasing and Columbia Pictures United States: Columbia Pictures |
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131 minutes |
| Country | Russia |
| Language | Russian German |
| Budget | $30 million |
| Box office | $68,075,573 |
Stalingrad (Russian: Сталинград) is a 2013 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. It was the first Russian movie completely produced with IMAX 3D technology and shot using 3ality Technica's TS-5 and Stereoscopic Image Processor, and the first Russian language feature film produced using the IMAX format. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd (formerly "Stalingrad") and October in Russia before its international release in subsequent months. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Stalingrad received the I3DS (International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society) Jury Award for Russia in 2014.
The film is a love story set in November 1942 during the Battle of Stalingrad, three months into that six month conflagration that caused nearly 2,000,000 total casualties (wounded, killed, captured) for the two opponents, including tens of thousands of Russian civilians. The story follows soldiers from both sides as they fight to survive while saving the lives of their loves, and struggle with retaining their humanity in the face of certain death and the unspeakable horrors of war.
The film opens in Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As emergency personnel work to reach some victims trapped underground, one rescuer tries to keep the victims calm by telling the story of how he came to have five fathers, all killed during the Great Patriotic War (World War II). The trapped victims are young German students and the rescuers are Russian.
In 1942, after the initial attack on Stalingrad, a small group of Russian soldiers take cover in a large five story residential building that happens to provide cover for a Russian crossing point on the Volga river. Five of these soldiers become the five fathers in the story: Polyakov ("Angel") who had become embittered when his wife and daughter were killed in an air raid; Chvanov, whose hatred of the Germans comes from their cruel treatment and methodical murder of his family; Nikiforov, a talented tenor singer before the war, who had become a cruel and vicious fighter; Sergey, drafted into the war as a spotter; and Captain Gromov, a veteran and hero who leads the group after finding them. The soldiers encounter a young girl named Katya, living alone in the building after her family had been killed. As they spend the next few days together, the soldiers grow fond of her, and she of them.
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