ngrad. It provides the reader a background on this crucial war.The movie Stalingrad, made in 1993, is a very entertaining and educational movie. Told by the point of view of German soldiers, it gives the viewer a vision of the hard times that many soldiers of the battle of Stalingrad had to live through. The director, Joseph Vilsmaier, does a terrific job of keeping the viewer focused. There are no points of boredom in this film. At times very gruesome and detailed, but at the same so real. Not only is it realistic but it is very educational. The director made sure that the viewer learned and felt about the German soldiers who were involved in this bloody war. At times one could actually feel the pain that these soldiers were experiencing. This movie is based on three German soldiers, Hans Witzland, Manfred “Rollo” Rohleder, and Fritz Reiser. These three men go through horrible psychological pains. They see senseless violence and death, things no human should have to go through. They are under direct orders to neither retreat nor surrender. They find themselves in a no win situation as their army loses scores of men just to capture another street. The three men lose their humanity along the way. Eventually they are just trying to survive although in reality they are already dead. This is a powerful movie that was well designed by Vilsmaier. It takes the viewer right into the trenches with the soldiers. After viewing the movie the viewer becomes much more aware of the hardships that many faced in the battle of Stalingrad.Both the War of the Rats and Stalingrad are well worth spending one’s time on for entertainment purposes alone. However, as I have mentioned before they also are both very educational. Both are based on factual events. War of the Rats is more about two individual people than the actual war, but still gives a brief overview about the battle of Stalingrad. Stalingrad focuses on the s...
