Russian opinion

Rating: Null/10 (4 June 2007)

It is shame director and all crew. Most of the story in this film is just fiction. Horror of NKVD, soldiers w/o weapons, blowing boats on the river, etc. This was not true. And also time-line is fiction. Jean Jaques Annaud should read a book, which was written by Vasiliy Zaitsev (yeah, that sniper): "Аfter the Volga there was not a land for us. Notes of the sniper."
Here comes some facts from that book:

Zaitsev was on navy before Stalingrad. He never was huntsman. - He was taken across the Volga at night and w/o any resistance from Germans. - He was armed with a gun, machine-gun and grenades. Other soldiers were armed too. - He became a sniper couple months later after his regiment starts fighting in Stalingrad. etc.

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