Stalingrad (2013 film)
Stalingrad Russian is a 2013 Russian action war drama film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk. This is the first Russian movie completely produced with IMAX 3D technology and shot using 3ality Technicas TS5 and Stereoscopic Image Processor. At the same time, this project is the first Russian language feature film produced using the IMAX format. The film was released in September 2013 in Volgograd formerly Stalingrad and October in Russia before its international release in subsequent months. The film was selected as the Russian entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards, but it was not nominated. Stalingrad received the I3DS International 3D and Advanced Imaging Society Jury Award for Russia in 2014.
The film opens in Japan in the wake of the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. As emergency personnel work to reach some victims trapped underground, one rescuer tries to keep the victims calm by telling the story of how he came to have five fathers, all killed during the Great Patriotic War World War II. The trapped victims are young German students and the rescuers are Russian.In 1942, after the initial attack on Stalingrad, a small group of Russian soldiers take cover in a large five story residential building that happens to provide cover for a Russian crossing point on the Volga river. Five of these soldiers become the five fathers in the story Polyakov Angel who had become embittered when his wife and daughter were killed in an air raid Chvanov, whose hatred of the Germans comes from their cruel treatment and methodical murder of his family Nikiforov, a talented tenor singer before the war, who had become a cruel and vicious fighter Sergey, drafted into the war as a spotter and Captain Gromov, a veteran and hero who leads the group after finding them. The soldiers encounter a young girl named Katya, living alone in the building after her family had been killed. As they spend the next few days together, the soldiers grow fond of her, and she of them. ........
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