Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1748 in DVD
• Released on: 2001-10-22
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Formats: Dubbed, PAL
• Original language: German, Russian
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 132 minutes

Amazon.co.uk Review
It's tempting to call the harrowing Stalingrad a World War II version of All Quiet on the Western Front, since both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people--Russian defenders and German invaders alike. Not unlike Spielberg's approach to Saving Private Ryan, German director Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a series of gut-wrenching episodes, events that have the tang of authenticity and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so well. --Robert Horton

Special Features
English
Region 2

Synopsis
This German film is a gritty, devastating retelling of the battle for Stalingrad during World War II, in which more than a million and a half soldiers lost their lives. Told from the point of view of the German soldiers, who were under orders to neither retreat nor surrender, this film realistically portrays the brutality of combat.

Customer Reviews

Waste of an hour.
"Dubbed by the people who did South Park", as a friend put it, this is lousy. Maybe it was a lot more convincing in the original, but it lacks the sense of scale in time, distance and tragedy of so many better war films and television serials. The whole story appears to take place in a few weeks in about twenty square miles of farmland, one village, one farm and one industrial estate, and involve a hundred soldiers on each side. Noone changes on the way through, either.

If you've been told to get "that film about Stalingrad", they probably meant "Enemy at the Gates".

A moving war film with porn style dubbing...
It is a travesty to give such an interesting and powerful film such a bad release. I urge anyone with an interest in Stalingrad, or non American WWII experiences, to seek out the German version.

Stalingrad and all it represents, along with the British viewers should be treated with a little more respect.

good film, but lousy dubbing, and no extras
The outlay of this film is in fairness, very good, for those whom have little knowledge about the german and russian battle of starlingrad, this is an eye opener, it gritty and feels realisle!
The film is very good, the transfer to DVD is the real let down!
Very bad audio dubbing, similar to lots of japanese films, the acting is not as good as Das Boot, but still beleiveable, there are no features on the DVD, period.
If they sorted out the Audio Dubbing and the special features content, this would get five stars easily, but as it is it only get 3!