A better name would be love among the ruins (of a good concept)

Rating: 5/10 (28 September 2001)

I'm uncertain whether this also could be called 'Dr Zhivago in Stalingrad" A good concept which was butchered by the most inane love story and some of the most pompous and pretentious dialogue. Some of the battle scenes were extraordinarily good but the insertion of a love triangle not only loses and demeans the focus of what the film should be about. Those scenes which dealt with the brutality and horrific nature of the siege were realistic but the end was implausible and obviously someone decided to add a bit of "High Noon" to the mishmash. I had great hopes of this film which had a very serious core and could have been a tribute to all the brave people who fought there. instead it is a joke.