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Stalingrad 3D

July 2017

  • Stalingrad 1942

    Cities in the spotlight
    Volgograd in the spotlight: is Stalingrad being used as propaganda once again?

    Volgograd is commemorating the 75th anniversary of the bloodiest battle of the second world war. Seen as a ‘great victory’ for Stalin’s army, is it still being used to elevate the Russian government above criticism?

July 2014

  • Brad Pitt in Fury

    Why are we so obsessed with films about the second world war?

    Andrew Pulver: The events they depict happened decades ago and they're often historically dubious. Yet second world war films are more in fashion than ever. Why can't Hollywood get enough?

February 2014

  • Maria Smolnikova in Stalingrad

    Stalingrad – review

    One of the grimmest episodes of the second world war is recreated as special-effects kitsch, writes Jonathan Romney

  • Stalingrad

    Stalingrad – review

    This bizarre, determinedly pro-Russian 3D recreation of the battle of Stalingrad might well be Vladimir Putin's film of the week, but it's not Mike McCahill's
  • A scene from Stalingrad

    Fedor Bondarchuk: 'Stalingrad annoyed a lot of people'

    The Russian director's new war epic Stalingrad is mesmerising – but as a prominent Putin supporter, it is his politics that have attracted the most attention

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