Horst_In_Translation Review of Stalingrad

Stalingrad (2003– )

Excellent overview of the crucial Stalingrad situation

[7/10 · 30 August 2017]

"Stalingrad" is a German mini-series that consists of 3 episodes that run between 40 and 45 minutes at least in the German version. I think the English-language version is even a bit longer, but still nothing you couldn't watch in one sitting as in any case it will stay under the 3-hour mark comfortably. It's a historic documentary about the days of World War II of course and the crucial battle in the Soviet Union that basically decided the War in favor of the Allies and the Soviet Union. And that's why of course Guido Knopp is also on board of this small screen production as usual. Another fairly well-known name here is Sebastian Dehnhardt, who managed a decent breakthrough with 2 sports documentaries in the years after this one here. Here he was really just one of many. Anyway, I think this was a good and insightful watch from start to finish and really informative. The middle part ("Kessel") was probably the best of the entire thing as it did not only deliver convincingly in terms of interviews, old audio recordings, old video recordings etc. but also made an impact in terms of emotional situations as luckily nothing about this documentary feels staged or scripted (apart from the informative parts of course). As a whole, I quite enjoyed a watch and I can see why this one here is so much more known the the gigantic amount of other WWII documentaries and I don't think at all that many mistook this one for the feature film from a decade earlier that has the same name. I highly recommend the watch here. Go check it out.