I’ve always watched old Soviet and Yugoslav partisan WW2 movies, here if they made a WW2 movie today, it would just be ‘‘heroic totally not nazi collaborators chetniks/ustashe defending their countries from nazis and ‘‘gommies’’’’ since you know the situation in Balkans, but recently I got myself to watch some modern Russian WW2 movies like Stalingrad, T-34, The Last Frontier, Attack on Leningrad, Panfilov’s 28 Men, Battle for Sevastopol etc.

So what do you guys think of them, did they do the justice to history and Red Army?

  • @OrnluWolfjarl
    4•1 year ago

    I watched 2 movies that were great and I highly recommend them:

    • White Tiger (free on Mosfilm’s youtube) - Great anti-war and anti-fascist message. Great film overall.

    • The Road to Berlin (free on Mosfilm’s youtube) - Very decent war drama with good characters and portrays the Red Army and its sacrifices in a mostly positive light.

    I found Panfilov’s 28 to be decent enough as a war movie, but didn’t really get into any politics. It also didn’t shit on the story either.

    I also watched The Star sometime ago, and while some of the acting (particularly the B story) was crap, it wasn’t a bad war movie either.

    These last 2 are mostly selling patriotism though.

    Edit: forgot to mention The Brest Fortress. Also some bad acting/writing and cheap CGI work, but overall it’s worth watching I think. Doesn’t shy away from showing Nazi attrocities.