Stalingrad (1993 full movie)
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Stalingrad (1993 film)
1993 German war film by Joseph Vilsmaier
Stalingrad is a 1993 German anti-warfilm directed by Joseph Vilsmaier. It follows a platoon of German Army soldiers transferred to the Eastern Front of World War II, where they find themselves fighting in the Battle of Stalingrad.
The film is the second German movie to portray the Battle of Stalingrad. It was preceded by the 1959 Hunde, wollt ihr ewig leben (Stalingrad: Dogs, Do You Want to Live Forever?).
Plot
In August 1942, German soldiers enjoy leave in Cervo, Liguria, Italy, after fighting at the First Battle of El Alamein, where Unteroffizier Manfred "Rollo" Rohleder and Obergefreiter Fritz Reiser are introduced to Leutnant Hans von Witzland, their new platoon commander. Their unit is promptly sent to the Eastern Front to fight in the Battle of Stalingrad.
Witzland's platoon joins a company commanded by Hauptmann Hermann Musk. Musk leads an assault on a factory, which results in heavy casualties. Later, Witzland requests a ceasefire with the Soviets so both sides can collect th
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Joseph Vilsmaier, a German filmmaker whose striking portrayal of the Battle of Stalingrad brought home the horrors of war to a new generation, has died aged 81.
His agent confirmed that Vilsmaier “died peacefully at his home” in Bavaria on Tuesday.
Vilsmaier’s 1993 film Stalingrad painted a grim picture of the fate of a group of Wehrmacht soldiers sent to the eastern front in 1942 to fight what would become a losing battle against the Soviet Army.
The months-long siege of the city, now known as Volgograd, cost the lives of millions of soldiers and civilians and marked a turning point for Nazi Germany in the Second World War.
Born 1939 in Munich, Vilsmaier studied music and worked as a technician before gaining a foothold in the film business in the early 1960s as a runner and later making a name for himself as a cameraman for German television.
Vilsmaier made his debut as a director in 1988 with Herbstmilch, or Autumn Milk, the story of a Bavarian peasant woman that became a box office hit in Germany.
Many of his films focused on tumultuous periods in G
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Joseph Vilsmaier, German Director of ‘Stalingrad,’ Dies at 81
Joseph Vilsmaier, the German director of Stalingrad, The Harmonists and Marlene Dietrich biopic Marlene, has died. He was 81.
Vilsmaier’s agent on Wednesday confirmed media reports that the director “died peacefully at his home” in Bavaria on Tuesday.
Born in Munich in 1939, Vilsmaier studied music and worked as a technician before gaining a foothold in the film business in the early 1960s, starting as a runner. He worked his way up, initially as a cameraman for German television, lensing episodes of popular crime series Tatort and the cult 1980s trucker drama Auf Achse, before directing his first feature, Autumn Milk, in 1989 when he was almost 50.
The adaptation of an autobiographical account of growing up on a farm in rural Bavaria in the 1920s and ’30s, Autumn Milk was a box office hit in Germany. It set the template for Vilsmaier’s career. He became known for elegant depictions of the lives of Germans, ordinary or legendary, during periods of extreme uphea
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