The Red Army at first was desperately defending the city (summer-autumn of 1942), and then launched a counteroffensive, encircling hundreds of thousands of Ge… On their way they are screamed at, threatened and humiliated by commanders. There is no mention of Marshal Yeremenko who did command the front or of General Chuikov who directed the 62nd Army in the battle for Stalingrad. Two months later, after Stalingrad has been liberated and the German forces have surrendered, Vasily finds Tania recovering in a field hospital. (Russian: Ни шагу назад!, romanized: Ni shagu nazad! [10], Roger Ebert gave the film three stars out of four and wrote that it, is about two men placed in a situation where they have to try to use their intelligence and skills to kill each other. When the Red Army command learns of König's mission, they dispatch König's former student Koulikov to help Vasily kill him. The attack, which started like a sports match with a whistle blow, quickly withers away, but when the troops start retreating they are machine-gunned by a punitive detachment. The commanding German general takes König's dog tags to prevent Soviet propaganda from profiting if König is killed. When Annaud focuses on that, the movie works with rare concentration. Well for starters In the beginning of the movie, the new recruits are sent on a train, and the trains arrives near the Volga and the arriving soldiers see the river and Stalingrad. Once the men reach the far shore the scene becomes even more confused as the men are rushed straight into battle after a small number of them are given rifles and the rest one clip of ammunition with instructions for the unarmed to pick up the rifles of the fallen - this perhaps inspired by Gabriel Temkin's My Just War: the Memoir of a Jewish Red Army Soldier in World War II. One doesn't have to be a historian or a specialist in warfare to understand that this makes no sense: none of the soldiers would be able to fight since one lacks a rifle and the other lacks ammunition. The film uses events from William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, but it is not a direct adaptation. Soon after, Danilov begins publishing tales of Vasily's exploits in the army's newspaper that paint him as a national hero and propaganda icon. The river crossing is a hellish scene as the boats are bombed and strafed by German dive bombers with graphically portrayed loss of life of Soviet soldiers and may have been inspired by a passage from Konstantin Simonov's novel Days and Nights. Finding Vasily waiting to ambush König, Danilov intentionally exposes himself in order to provoke König into shooting him and revealing his hidden position, sacrificing his life in the process. The book claims that Zaitsev fought his sniper duel over a number of days through the ruins of the city. With the Soviet snipers taking an increasing toll on the German forces, German Major Erwin König is deployed to Stalingrad to kill Vasily to crush Soviet morale. ", which authorised the use of these regiments on a large scale, stipulated that there should be up to five such detachments (consisting of 200 soldiers each) per army formation (more than 50,000 people). The attack started like a sports match with a whistle blow. They will learn that junior ranking political officers served in the front lines and suffered the same fate as officers and men. A derelict factory in the village of Rüdersdorf was used to recreate the ruins of Stalingrad's tractor factory. The cast includes Jude Law as Zaytsev, Rachel Weisz as Tania Chernova, and Ed Harris as König, with Joseph Fiennes, Bob Hoskins, Ron Perlman, Eva Mattes, Gabriel Marshall Thomson, and Matthias Habich.

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