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2021-12-18 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

Review: Russian WWII film The Last Stand

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Posted by badanov 2021-12-18 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11133 views ] Top

#1 There have been a lot of brutally honest films coming out of Russia depicting what it was like fighting Hitler's NAZI army on the Western Front. One of those films was 'Stalingrad'. Another was 'Night Witches'.

In 'Stalingrad' Russian troops were thrown into frontal assaults by their officets that the Germans cut to pieces. The remaining hand full of survivors tried to return to their own lines but all were purposely cut down by their own machine guns for retreating.

Posted by Blackbeard Barnsmell6454 2021-12-18 00:45|| 2021-12-18 00:45|| Front Page Top

#2 I've tried watching Russian war films before. They're terrible. They're like Chinese war films: overwrought and melodramatic. It's a pity, they don't need to do this. The source material is compelling enough without massive embellishment.

Posted by Clulet Splat5443 2021-12-18 00:56|| 2021-12-18 00:56|| Front Page Top

#3 ^ I highly recommend you watch White Tiger. Also on You Tube. Not so many commercials. I have watched it several time now. I recall students slaughtered in a previous film of the White Russian internal war. Fight or die one way or another.

Posted by Dale 2021-12-18 03:56|| 2021-12-18 03:56|| Front Page Top

#4 ...Sadly, cadets die for the mistakes of their leaders. The VMI cadets at New Market are still remembered at VMI today, and the Kriegsmarine sent its officer cadets into Berlin at the very end - they were still wearing their parade uniforms when they were told and marched onto the train. Not a single survivor has ever been found.

Mike

Posted by Mike Kozlowski 2021-12-18 06:53|| 2021-12-18 06:53|| Front Page Top

#5 Will check this out.

Enjoyed White Tiger.

Going to throw 1944 out there as a suggestion, though not Russian.

Trying to remember the name of a movie I had just watched, Russian scouts sneak into the German lines to call in artillery/air strikes.

Not a war movie but enjoyed The Blackout.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-18 13:38|| 2021-12-18 13:38|| Front Page Top

#6 Another RantburgU moment. Many years ago I first read Paul Carrell's "battle histories" (as some historians would refer to that genre as hagiographies) and even noticed that certain shall we say 'unpleasantnesses' were blandly ignored...

Posted by magpie 2021-12-18 17:33|| 2021-12-18 17:33|| Front Page Top

Posted by Frank G 2021-12-18 18:43|| 2021-12-18 18:43|| Front Page Top

#8 I have to check it out as I love Russian ww2 movies, recently Rzhev was very good as was White Tiger.

And Come and See is I think the best ww2 movie

Posted by BernardZ 2021-12-18 21:33|| 2021-12-18 21:33|| Front Page Top

#9 Pretty sure the movie I was thinking of:
The Star

All in all, not the hollywood bullshits.

Posted by swksvolFF 2021-12-18 22:34|| 2021-12-18 22:34|| Front Page Top