Very Good

Rating: 8/10 (28 June 2008)

It is a good film, very educational to anyone who like to learn the history of the battle of Stalingrad, may i warn you that if your watching a UK copy of the DVD, there will be English voice overs because the film is in German and it can be quite hard to hear what they are saying, apart from that it is a very good film. Some bits are quite gruesome as well and some gory surgical detail involved as well, but it is not gory enough to put you off the movie. The actors are brilliant German actors, all of them with an old fashioned German hair cut. A lot of deaths as well and most of them are by there own men. This film has a lot of reviews and they are all good ones, one film critic said "An uncompromising study of war, it will stand comparisons with 'All Quiet on the western front'". this was from the Sunday times, another comment by Film Review "Powerful and gripping", "Excellent" by Screen International and "A Masterpiece" by NME. It is interesting to say that the film was produced by Hanno Huth who was the producer of the classic 'Das Boot'.