Perhaps one of the best ww2 film

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While waiting for Red thunder i saw again Osvobozhdenie aka Liberation (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151852)
Its a 7,5 hours epic in 5 parts that begins from the battle of Kursk and follow all the major events not only millitary(the Battle of Kursk,the Lower-Lower Dnieper offensive,Operation Bagration, the Vistula Oder Offensive and the battle of Berlin )but also the Political events(The Yalta and Teheran conferences,operation Valkyrie,the events in the last days in bunker etc)
The first thing that draw attetion is the grand scale of the battles e.g 3000 troops, 100 tanks, 18 military aircraft and 2000 artillery pieces were used to recreate the Battle of Kursk.30 kilometers of trenches were dug to resemble the wartime fortifications
Another noticable thing is that Russian actors playing the Russians,Germans(well East Germans) the Germans,Italians the Italians etc and they speak their mothertongue only exception the actor who plays Roosvelt he is Russian.
Despite some minor flaws for the millitary buffs,like they used converted from T-44and IS-2 tanks instead Tiger 1 and Panthers respectively. Eventually replicas of 10 Tigers and 8 Panthers were produced in a Soviet tank factory in Lvov
For my this movie along with Das Boot,Die Bruecke,Atentát,L'armιe des ombres,and Band of Brothers are the best movies about the ww2 era
 
Hey ioannis3, do You have any problems with East Germans? By the way - OK, I only saw one cut scene of the film and have to see more to get a final conclusion - it was common crap. Germans walked into fire as any moron, if they shot they never hit something etc. But I have to admit it was a great thing, for the time the movie was made, to see the russians fired on the russians.

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Thank you for the tip, Johnny! ;) Great!

I didn't know that movie before - now found it on YouTube (in Russian Original tone) but I will watch it!
OK, just like Sempai said - it is the action of the '60s/'70s but anyway I think it's worth watching it - and if it is only for to close my "movie knowledge gap". ;)

 
Sempai said:
Hey ioannis3, do You have any problems with East Germans?
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No nothing against i wanted to point out that they were East Germans and not West German actors:oops:
I think that its one of the first films that show the German soldier as ordinary people,and in the Russian side you see also people dying,freaking out,disobeying orders etc,something very unusual for a movie about the Great patriotic war

@ Nelson Yes this is the movie

@Shroker I think you must give it a try besides the action scenes(whom i believe are very realistic for a USSR film 45 years ago)
Its very accurate in the political backround its a mix of war film and docudrama.

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Nope, Niall! Sorry, I have to say that but on the first three slots have the three parts of 08/15 to stay.

1.) 08/15 - In der Kaserne (In the Barracks)
2.) 08/15 - Im Krieg (At War)
3.) 08/15 - In der Heimat/Bis zum Ende (At the Homeland/Until the End)
4.) Stalingrad (1993 version)
5.) Die Brücke (Original 1959)
6.) Steiner (Iron Cross) but only the original - Iron Cross 2 was crap

...and from here on as You have said. ;)

Greetings :)
 
Mchale's Navy, Kelly's heroes, Hogans Heroes, Rat Patrol, and 12 o'clock High, Combat, Patton. All good for there time.

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