its fairly correct. no movie ever will have a 100% accuracy, stop crying bitches, its a dramatized movie.
shareAgreed. There are several historical inaccuracies. However, the whole Zaitsev story is largely a mix of history, myth and propaganda. I believe that this movie does a good job at embodying the mix of the reality with the myth.
shareThe biggest historical inaccuracy that bothers me is the way they play up the importance of Stalingrad in the narrative exposition in the beginning. Hitler had the opportunity to take the Caucases by going south but he decided to instead attack Stalingrad as a political conquest. There would have been no military gain from conquering Stalingrad. Although the outcome of the battle was a huge turning point for the war the initial reasoning for engagement was pointless.
shareright on!
shareJust perhaps, the Germans might have won WWII if Hitler didn't think he knew more than his generals, and consequently made bad decisions. Fighting on two fronts (west to France, The Netherlands, et al; and east into Russia) was probably his biggest blunder.
Hitler was kind of like Hitler in that regard, saying he knew more than all his generals.
The French surrendered. The Dutch royals fled to England. Not much of a war on the western front.
shareYou're totally right! Let's make a movie where the death camps in the Holocaust were really nice summer camps. Or a movie about 9/11 where the terrorists were the good guys. Or an American version of Enemy At The Gates, where the US soldiers who fought at D-Day were a bunch of unequipped cowards with no officers sent to die for no reason. After all, it's not a documentary, right?
Seriously, NO ONE WHO IS COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS MOVIE WANTS IT TO BE 100% ACCURATE. Can you get that through your skull? It's just that if your making a movie about a real, tragic event that actually happened, at least show some basic *beep* respect to those involved.
Not historically accurate.. but at least it does one GREAT thing. It glorifies the Russians. The sacrifices that they made to defeat Hitler. They basically saved the world.
And how do they get rewarded? They live the rest of their lives under a difficult communist regime with food shortages.
You misspelled dickhead.
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