2013 · war · drama · action
Stalingrad
Directed by Fyodor Bondarchuk2h 11m2013
A band of determined Russian soldiers fight to hold a strategic building in their devastated city against a ruthless German army, and in the process become deeply connected to a Russian woman who has been living there.
Our read: Stalingrad (2013) reads as a sombre, breathless, grounded war · drama · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, breathless, extreme war / drama, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- kinetic
- extreme
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