A warmakers must-see

Rating: Null/10 (30 August 2002)

This movie is the perfect study of why avoid wars. As the story goes, it sligthly prooves us something that everyone knows but seldom thinks seriously. There's no right wars. No wars for justice, no wars for peace. Wars are all meat-grinder, human butching monsters. In this German masterpiece the filmmakers put everything on the scene to show us, to frighten us...There are no one-man-deals-all heroes, no good fellows, no bad guys. Everybody's suffering for nothing...The main characters are no action-movie heroes; just a branch of man trying to get along with the reality. They slowly weaken in number, as there's clear from the beginning: no solution, no way out for them. Once they try to break out, try to escape, but they don't succeed, and finally die as most of them at the outskirts of Stalingrad. The fight for life reaches the absurdity at the end, so they must fail. Might a Hollywood product make at least one of them to reach safety, and get safe and sound in the warmth of home, this movie stays at the realities. In real wars no heroes. All of participating in battles, either soldiers or civilians are flesh-and-blood persons, can be hurt, can die and suffer all the time, as could everyone of us do. 'Russian, Germans, whether nation we belong to, wars won't help us at all.Keep that in mind, please' - that's the main concept of Stalingrad.