Art Pictures | Stalingrad

Stalingrad

Year

2013
Country

Россия
Genre

war drama
Film rating

12+
Box office in Russia

$51 760 472
Tagline

"The epic battle that turned the tide of World War II"
Synopsis

The year 1942, Stalingrad. The Soviet troops are planning to launch a counterattack towards the German troops holding the right bank of the Volga river. The offensive has failed. Only a few scouts, led by Captain Gromov, manage to make it to the other bank and secure one of the houses there, next ordered to hold the enemy back at all costs. The scouts discover that apart from a handful of Soviet soldiers, who have somehow managed to survive, the house also gives shelter to a nineteen-year-old girl named Katya, the last of the building's lodgers. Meanwhile, Hauptmann Kahn, a German officer, receives orders to retake the building from the Soviets. The confrontation turns into a dramatic tale of love and a faceoff between the warring parties, set against the backdrop of one of the bloodiest battles in the history of mankind...

Director

Fedor Bondarchuk
Script

Ilya Tilkin, Sergei Snezhkin, Vasiliy Grossman
Cameraman

Maxim Osadchiy
Producers

Alexander Rodnyanskiy, Sergei Melkumov, Anton Zlatopolskiy, Fedor Bondarchuk, Dmitriy Rudovskiy, Natalia Kapkova
Composer

Angelo Badalamenti
Art director

Sergei Ivanov, Tatyana Patrakhaltseva, Elena Dunaeva
Editor

Igor Litoninskiy

Stalingrad is the first Russian movie made completely in 3D IMAX and the first non-North American film in the IMAX format. However, it is not the first 3D movie to come out of Russian territory. The honor goes to "Concert" produced in 1940-1941 in USSR, directed by Alexander Andrievsky, and released on February 4th, 1941.
Official submission of Russia to the Oscars 2014 best foreign language film category.
Fedor Bondarchuk, Andrey Smolyakov, and Thomas Kretschmann have already acted in films named Stalingrad: Thomas starred in the German movie Сталинград (1993), Fedor and Andrey had roles in the Soviet movie Stalingrad (1990).