The dark side of man

Rating: 9/10 (28 January 2007)

An excellent alternative movie demonstrating the horrors of war, in which there are never any heroes. Although Stalingrad was made with a much smaller budget than comparable Hollywood WWII movies, the outcome is touching. However, there is some cliché clumsiness in the outline of the main characters. There are not many movies about the WWII in Eastern Europe & Russia, where the war was the most brutal and where the outcome of the entire second world war was to a large extent settled (something which is often forgotten in the Anglo Saxon world). Stalingrad achieves to large extent in what it tries to describe. The tragic dark faith of over 1 million people would deserve more movies.