Stalingrad
Brief Synopsis
Cast & Crew
Joseph Vilsmaier
Thomas Kretschmann
Dominique Horwitz
Jochen Nickel
Karel Hermanek
Dana Vavrova
Film Details
Technical Specs
Synopsis
In the spring of 1942 German troops advanced deep into the Soviet Union, en route to Stalingrad. Hitler, seriously misjudging the tenacity of the Red Army, was convinced the city could be conquered before winter. Inadequately clothed and without sufficient food, Nazi troops literally froze and starved to death, largely abandoned by their leaders. The film presents this turning point in WWII as a vast horror show in which the average German soldier was as much a victim of Nazi evil as were the Soviet people.
Director
Joseph Vilsmaier
Cast
Thomas Kretschmann
Dominique Horwitz
Jochen Nickel
Karel Hermanek
Dana Vavrova
Sebastian Rudolph
Martin Benrath
Sylvester Groth
Crew
Bob Arnold
Karl Baumgartner
Milan Bor
Jurgen Buscher
Peter Drozda
Jindrich Goetz
Rolf Greim
Johannes Heide
Ute Hofinger
Wolfgang Hundhammer
Hanno Huth
Gerhard Jakubowski
Michael Krohne
Klaus Moderegger
Hannes Nikel
Richard Raski
Gunter Rohrbach
Norbert J Schneider
Gunther Stadelmann
Milan Steindler
Jaroslav Tomsa
Joseph Vilsmaier
Joseph Vilsmaier
Joseph Vilsmaier
Peter Von Haller
Film Details
Technical Specs
Quotes
Trivia
Miscellaneous Notes
Released in United States Summer May 24, 1995
Released in United States April 26, 1996
Released in United States on Video January 28, 1997
Released in United States October 2003
Shown at New York Film Festival (Sidebar) October 3-19, 2003.
Production began in Czechoslovakia, but because of the delay due to an injury suffered by director Vilsmaier, the ice thawed and the entire crew and production was transported to Finland.
Completed shooting April 2, 1992.
Began shooting October 22, 1991.
Released in United States Summer May 24, 1995
Released in United States April 26, 1996 (Laemmle's Music Hall; Los Angeles)
Released in United States on Video January 28, 1997
Released in United States October 2003 (Shown at New York Film Festival (Sidebar) October 3-19, 2003.)
