The real truth about WWII

Rating: 9/10 (15 April 2001)

When I was thinking - should I visit this movie or not, I thought that this movie will be another like "Saving Private Ryan" movie which show how USA was fighting with Nazi Germany, but the WWII was not between USA and Germany only. After seeing that film I was deeply impressed - I even can`t imagine that non-Russian director could film such a good and truthful movie about the most great battle in WWII - Stalingrad battle. Yes, he was right by showing poor russian soldiers (One rifle for two people, for example) and fully equipped German warriors, but, it was only the beginning. Then he showed us a real heroizm of all Russian people who is fighting for his own land, who is together is fighting against one enemy - the Nazis. Maybe he was right to show how the propaganda works on people, but, believe me - if we take out from this movie all such things (like newspapers with Zaitsev photos, like Nikita Krushchev (I don`t know at all what he is doing there, BTW) - we can see there one REAL man - Vasiliy Zaitsev - this men really exists, and he really was sniper. This is the one not-russian movie [I`ve seen] which show truth about WWII, which show truth about who was fighting in this was and who is really won the war. Yes, I`m Russian. 10 from 10. (And I`ve checked back Saving Private Ryan movie and lower my rating for this movie, because, again - Enemy at the Gates - is the best non-russian movie about WWII)