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?

  • @Shrike502
    13•1 year ago

    Haven’t actually watched any (due to expecting cringe), but my (Marxist) friend likes to torture himself with that stuff. According to him and certain others:

    • the movie about Devyataev sucked absolute balls and had him shake hands with collaborators, among other things
    • the movie about Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya sucked immensely, having purposefully omitted why she chose that particular nickname (hint: it was in honour of a girl that was raped and tortured to death by tsarist forces), and had her fighting for “tram and rye bread”. Literal quote.

    And as a general rule, avoid watching shit by Nikita Mikhalkov (Tired by the Sun and its sequels). He’s a batshit anti-com and monarchist, with delusions of aristocracy.

    • KiG V2
      6•1 year ago

      Weird, I am not surprised at anti-com/pro-monarch views, but having someone shake hands with a collaborator seems too far.

  • @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.