The Battle of Stalingrad 1949 Movie Review

On May 9, 1949, for the 4th anniversary of the Victory in WW2, an epic movie depicting the battle of Stalingrad was released in the Soviet Union.
This was the very first movie on this topic, just a few years after the real events. It was part of a series of propaganda epics with a Stalinist interpretation of the events.
But let's consider it from a critical and pragmatic point of view: even if propaganda, the film has some areas of interest:
- it's the very first cinema production on the Battle of Stalingrad. And an epic one, great scale, enormous battle scenes, good actors, etc.
- some action scenes and and staff meetings are very well reconstituted and remain accurate from a historical perspective. So well that several well-known photos of the battle are actually pictures from this film.
- even if some episodes are exaggerated or wrongly depicted, the overall chronology is correct, the dates are accurate, and there are many of them mentioned. So that if we consider the entire mosaic of events we get at precise picture of the campaign, over 6 months, from July 1942 to February 1943. No other film covers the battle as extensively, like a documentary transformed into a movie. So that's a strong positive aspect.

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