Stalingrad
A World War II film set in Stalingrad, depicting events of 1942–1943
Synopsis
German soldiers face the brutal reality of the Battle of Stalingrad during World War II.
Historical setting
Joseph Vilsmaier's Stalingrad follows a German assault-engineer platoon pulled from the Italian coast in the summer of 1942 and thrown into the fight for the city on the Volga, where the Wehrmacht's 6th Army wore itself down in house-to-house combat against determined Soviet defenders.
After the Soviet counter-offensive, Operation Uranus, closed the ring in November 1942, roughly a quarter of a million Axis soldiers were trapped in the pocket without adequate winter clothing or supplies; the starving remnants of the 6th Army surrendered in early February 1943. Told from the perspective of ordinary soldiers, the film stands as one of German cinema's most unflinching anti-war statements about the Eastern Front.
The events portrayed in Stalingrad take place in 1942–1943, during the Second World War. Explore the same period alongside other films on the WW2 timeline.
