Grim movie about a grim event

Rating: 7/10 (13 May 2002)

Well done movie with a reasonably good story set against an incredibly grim event. The most common set decoration seems to be dead bodies. Fortunately, but perhaps unrealistically, the bodies never seem to be in an advanced state of decay. Also, the movie (perhaps thankfully) does not much go into the fate of the residents of Stalingrad.
The movie has a very American viewpoint. The Germans are wholly evil, and the Russian government is wholly evil. (Bob Hoskins is great as Khrushchev.) The only characters which are portrayed sympathetically are the lowly Russian soldiers like the Hero and the Love Interest.