Stalingrad Poster

Stalingrad

ONE MILLION NAZIS COULDN'T TAKE IT!

Starring: Yuriy Levitan, Brian Donlevy

Writer: Vasiliy Grossman, John Wexley, Leonid Varlamov, Aleksandr Kuznetsov

Release Date:
May 14, 1943
Ratings:
5.2 / 10
Director:
Leonid Varlamov
Companies:
Tsentralnaya Studiya Kinokhroniki

Overview

A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the turning points of World War II. Filmed on the front lines, it depicts the brutal devastation of the city, the resilience of its defenders, and the eventual Soviet counteroffensive that encircled and defeated the German 6th Army. Released internationally—with the U.S. version retitled The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad—the film served both as a record of the Red Army’s victory and as a powerful work of wartime propaganda.