Stalingrad

IMDb link: 0108211
IMDb rating: 7.5 (40,391 votes)
Genres: Drama, War
Director: Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast: Thomas Kretschmann, Dominique Horwitz, Jochen Nickel, Sebastian Rudolph and others

Release date: 21 Jan 1993
Release year: 1993
Runtime: 134 minutes
Country: Germany
Keywords: freeze, frozen corpse, cold, cold the temperature, world war two soldier, soviet tank, stalingrad, battle of stalingrad, eastern front, year 1943

Plot:

August 1942. A German combat engineer platoon is resting and recuperating in Italy after fighting in North Africa. Their Lieutenant was badly wounded in the fighting and a new, green, platoon commander, Lt Hans van Witzland, has just taken command. The platoon is soon to be attached to an elite unit and sent to a place synonymous with carnage and destruction on a massive scale. An operation that marked a turning point of World War 2. Stalingrad.

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