Where the hell was everybody?

Rating: Null/10 (19 March 2001)

Reading these reviews, everyone seemed to get riled at the love scene. Along with the sets - which were superlative, by the way, I found the love scene to be the least problematical. To those who had problems with said scene: the human sex drive does not switch off due to the proximity of war or the non-proximity of a bathtub. I've heard of plenty of people in wartime catching as catch can in the manner of Weisz and Law.
But what bothered me was the way everyone with the exception of the principals seemed to disappear at times from the face of Stalingrad! Stalingrad was a massive battle involving hundreds of thousands of soldiers within an urban area. Every yard of open space at the front was guarded by numerous rifles and machine guns from both sides, not to mention artillery, mines and booby traps. There is no way on earth anyone could have moved from side to side in the manner of Sasha, no way anyone would dare expose themselves -ever - in daylight without considerable covering fire.