Word: stalingraders
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany from Moscow last week went a Christmas parcel wrapped in propaganda TNT. It was a big enough parcel to touch the hearts of 250,000 families bereaved by the debacle at Stalingrad. The card enclosed was signed by Lieut. General Walther von Seydlitz, a veteran of Stalingrad and now vice chairman of the Free German Committee...
...occasion he was merry: downing champagne, toasting Roosevelt and Churchill, charging around the dinner table to touch glasses with one and all. But Stalin showed real emotion only once: when Churchill presented the Stalingrad sword (sent as a gift from King George VI "to the steel-hearted citizens of Stalingrad"). Stalin shivered almost imperceptibly, raised the sword to his lips and kissed the scabbard (see cut). President Roosevelt watched, deeply impressed. Others thought they saw "a little lump clumping in his throat." Almost inaudibly, Stalin thanked Churchill and the British...
While thrusts and counterthrusts continued in the Ukraine, the weight of the Russian attack shifted northward. There, on the fringe of the Pripet Marshes, General Konstantin Rokossovsky celebrated the first anniversary of his historic Stalingrad noose by stringing a similar noose around German-held Gomel. And from the areas farther north came new rumblings: perhaps the next big Red offensive will roll there...
...Battle of Russia moves in three great waves of action: the first seven months of invasion; the siege of Leningrad; the Stalingrad campaign. There are serious weaknesses: figure-skating around the Russian Revolution and the German-Soviet Pact which Sonja Henie could envy; blurring into romancing (as in some specious shots of gibbeted civilians); surprising failures to make the most of great material (Leningrad's fortitude is reinforced by only a hint of Leningrad's semistarvation). But overall and in most of its detail the film has remarkable power. Its power results from a simple fact: the greatest...
...Even music-which usually drowns moving pictures in sugar-adds greatly to this one. The sudden naïve, triumphal avalanche of scales which opens the finale of Tschaikovsky's Fourth Symphony-used here at the moment when the tide turns against the Germans at Stalingrad -is an astute and thrilling use of cinemusic...