This movie ranks with the greatest war movies of all time.

Rating: 10/10 (6 March 1999)

This film is one of the best kept secrets in my part of the world. I recently acquired a video copy of the German sub-titled version and was just simply blown away. It is one of the most realistically presented World War II movies that one could hope to see. It conveys the real horrors of the Stalingrad campaign from the German soldiers point of view. Not being personally familiar with the actors in the film made it for me, all the more interesting. There are no heroes in this film, only ordinary people placed in a hopeless situation. It was so engrossing, that I forgot that I was watching a movie with sub-titles. I highly recommend it.