Very well done

Rating: Null/10 (3 September 2002)

After 60 years of constant anti-propaganda, it is a very hard job indeed to have someone sympathize with the German point of view of the second great war. This movie achieves it.
War on the Russian front was one of the greatest mistakes any leader could have done and Germany paid dearly for that, in terms of causalties as well as consequences. The movie Stalingrad depicts the story of ordinary soldiers caught between the duty of the reich and their own personal consciousness. We see soldiers, warriers, young innocents who for whatever reason are thrown into the firelines and pushed to their physical and offensive levels. The villains and the heroes are on the same side, both are germans..Tribute to the filmmakers and the storytellers and the actors of the Stalingrad that, they achieve to humanize the most loathed subjects of the last 6 decades. They are frightened, traumatized, have dreams and hopes, and want to survive..They could be anyone, from any race, from any country; it is so easy to identify with them. This a one of the best anti-war movies ever made..It is haunting, painfully realistic void of cliches and emotionally affective without being cheesy..