The Battle of Stalingrad

original title:
The Battle of Stalingrad
other titles:
The City that has Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad
country / year of production:
Soviet Union / 1943
original length:
75 min. , black/white
premiere:
genre:
Documentary
based on:
director:
Leonid Varlamov
film script:
John Wexley
producer:
cinematographer:
editor:
Leonid Varlamov
composer:
Viktor Smirnov
cast (role):
more:
Brian Donlevy (narrator) , Brian Donlevy
plot synopsis:
A compilation of German and Soviet film footage which both commemorates and celebrates the genuinely heroic struggle of the Soviet people and government against German forces for more than two years of siege and combat.
keywords:
Stalingrad
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
literature:
A. Samsonov. „Segodnia tak nel’zia. Posle prochteniia scenariia“. Iskusstvo kino (1988), 8, 39-45.
remarks:
Compiled by the Central Newsreel Studios in Moscow. From motion pictures taken by over a hundred Soviet cameramen on the Don and Stalingrad fronts between 1941 and 1943.
The English narration is extremely heavy-handed.
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