A Russian point of view.

JeffinMNUSA · #1 (**permalink**) October 6th, 2009, 11:08 AM

Hello all;
http://www.great-victory1945.ru/
And the quote of the day is..

"For example, according to the opinion of those Russians who have watched a recent (2001) movie Enemy at the Gates, in which Jude Law, an English actor, plays our famous sniper Vassili Zaitsev, in fact, the actors resemble real Russian warriors as much as hamsters resemble sabretoothed tigers.
Not a distant resemblance!"

The problem with actors portraying real people is that they often fail to convince-moreover, the movie did not accurately portray the Stalingrad battles; which were "toe to toe deadly urban combat."
JeffinMNUSA

LJAd · #2 (**permalink**) October 6th, 2009, 05:47 PM

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Originally Posted by JeffinMNUSA

Hello all;
Russia At War 1941-1945 Home
And the quote of the day is..

"For example, according to the opinion of those Russians who have watched a recent (2001) movie Enemy at the Gates, in which Jude Law, an English actor, plays our famous sniper Vassili Zaitsev, in fact, the actors resemble real Russian warriors as much as hamsters resemble sabretoothed tigers.
Not a distant resemblance!"

The problem with actors portraying real people is that they often fail to convince-moreover, the movie did not accurately portray the Stalingrad battles; which were "toe to toe deadly urban combat."
JeffinMNUSA

I should say :they mostly fail to convince ;I haven't see the film;it will me take more time to go and return than the duration of the film ;experience has taught me that most war films are not my money worththe most recent are the worse,because we are two generations after WW II,and no film makers have a right picture of what happened ,not that they care,they care only about money btw is the movie an English one or a Hollywood one ?

Kai-Petri · #3 (**permalink**) October 6th, 2009, 06:04 PM

Here´s a group of pics by German soldiers of Red Army POW´s. Decide for yourself now...

JeffinMNUSA · #4 (**permalink**) October 6th, 2009, 08:42 PM

Kai;
No hamsters in those photos!

"Stalingrad is no longer a town. By day it is an enormous cloud of burning, blinding smoke; it is a vast furnace lit by the reflection of the flames. And when night arrives, one of those scorching, howling, bleeding nights, the dogs plunge into the Volga and swim desperately to gain the other bank. The nights of Stalingrad are a terror for them. Animals flee this hell; the hardest stones can not bear it for long; only men endure."

JeffinMNUSA

JeffinMNUSA · #5 (**permalink**) October 7th, 2009, 01:04 AM

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Originally Posted by LJAd

I should say :they mostly fail to convince ;I haven't see the film;it will me take more time to go and return than the duration of the film ;experience has taught me that most war films are not my money worththe most recent are the worse,because we are two generations after WW II,and no film makers have a right picture of what happened ,not that they care,they care only about money btw is the movie an English one or a Hollywood one ?

LJ;
European of some kind-and I can't recommend it. Hamster soldiers... The real Frontoviks were hungry for blood.

JeffinMNUSA

jds70 · #6 (**permalink**) October 7th, 2009, 03:04 AM

Movies are never good history.some war movies are entertianing in there own right,but history never.Most of the wwii documentaries are mostly crap.Even they are fun to watch and make fun of the errors.If you want history ,read it.