>> I know there were some political buttons pushed, but I do think that
>> Bavarian television’s production of Stalingrad was a damn good movie.
>> Violent, dismal, overall bummer. Sounds like the Eastern Front to me.
>
>Haven’t had a chance to see it yet, but I’ve heard it called the best
>movie on WWII land warfare, period.
>Steve Alvin

I think the 1989 Finnish “Winter War” beats “Stalingrad.” Mostly
because of the whole in-the-service-of-evil tragedy aspect of Germans in
Russia, which takes time away from combat scenes.

In the Finnish movie, while the tone of the movie is “brave,
family-oriented, god-fearing Lutheran christians defending their
homeland from the evil-commie-atheistic-hordes,” there is widespread use
of “artillery barrages,” either real or very good models of I-16s, a
dozen or so T-26, T-40, and BT-7 tanks–which they must have got out of
a museum, and lots of Russian human wave attacks (w/the conscripts in
those Civil War-era peaked cloth caps). Plus, you actually get to root
for the soldiers in the coal-scuttle helmets…

Timothy L. Francis
Historian
Naval Historical Center
email address: Francis.Timothy@nhc.navy.mil
voice: (202) 433-6802

The above remarks are my opinions, not those of the U.S. Navy or the
Department of Defense

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