Сталинград

During an unsuccessful counterattack attempt in 1942, part of the Soviet troops found themselves in enemy-occupied territory. This group of soldiers consists of scouts who, despite the failure of the offensive, still managed to get to the right point on the Volga bank. There they meet a girl whose house was occupied by the Germans. Having learned about the location of the Soviet soldiers, the command of the German troops decides to capture the city of Stalingrad, on the site of which an impressive battle will unfold. The horrors of war are mitigated by the love that arises between one of the heroes and a girl found by the soldiers. Read more "Stalingrad" by the Russian film director Fyodor Bondarchuk became a kind of breakthrough in Russian cinema. At the time of 2013, Hollywood was releasing several films per year, shot primarily in IMAX format, but it was somewhat different with Russian cinema. Thus, the military drama "Stalingrad" became the first Russian film shot in the IMAX format. Filming started in the fall of 2011. The approximate figure of the budget of the film "Stalingrad" is 30 million US dollars, a very significant amount. Both Russian and American cinematographers worked on the filming. In particular, some cameras were provided by the Americans for filming. The military equipment was completely fake. Thus, not a single real tank was used, and all aircraft were computer-engineered, if one did not take into account a knocked-down German plane built from plywood. Despite the rumors that the film was partially based on Vasyl Grossman's novel, in fact the screenwriter of the film "Stalingrad" Ilya Tilkin wrote the text based on the materials he specially read, including archival papers. Fyodor Bondarchuk's military drama was almost immediately nominated for an Oscar in the Best Foreign Language Film category.