1942年9月。ナチス・ドイツの猛攻にさらされ陥落寸前のスターリングラード。そこへ送り込まれた新兵ヴァシリ。敵の銃弾が降り注ぐ中、死体に紛れて反撃の機をうかがっている時、同じように身を潜めていた青年政治将校ダニロフと出会う。ダニロフのライフルを借りたヴァシリは驚くべき正確さで敵兵を次々と仕留めていった。

北アフリカ戦線から帰還して、避暑地で休養を取っていたドイツ陸軍の戦闘工兵達に出動の命令が下る。目的地は東部戦線の激戦地スターリングラード。だが彼らがそこで見たのは、栄光とは程遠い戦争の現実であった。死闘を繰り広げる彼らをあざ笑うかのように、ロシアの冬将軍が到来し、厳しい戦いを強いられることになる。

In July 1942, in the Second World War, the rearguard of the Russian army protects the bridgehead of the Don River against the German army while the retreating Russian troops cross the bridge. While they move back to the Russian territory through the countryside, the soldiers show their companionship, sentiments, fears and heroism to defend their motherland.

In the winter of 1943, against the background of battle scenes, a young German Lieutenant who increasingly distrusts the inhuman Nazi ideology struggles with the concept of war.

A double portrait of two dictators who were thousands of miles apart but were constantly fixated on each other.

The story of the Battle of Stalingrad from the perspective of a Panzer commander and an officer in a penal battalion.

The convoluted and moving story of Russian writer Vassili Grossman (1905-64) and his novel Life and Fate (1980), a literary masterpiece, a monumental and epic account of life under Stalin's regime of terror, a defiant cry that the KGB tried to suffocate.

Soviet documentary film.

1942年11月、工業地帯スターリングラードを巡って枢軸軍とソビエト赤軍が繰り広げた史上最大の市街戦を、ソ連軍の視点からリアルに描いた戦争アクション。最新VFXによる戦闘シーンなど、見どころ満載。

In November 1942, shortly after the Wehrmacht launched the attack on Stalingrad, the Soviet counteroffensive called "Operation Uranus" began. The German troops were encircled and met their deaths or fell into captivity. Only about 6000 German soldiers eventually returned from the Russian prison camps. This documentary focuses on the construction of a cemetery for the fallen soldiers in the battle for Stalingrad.