Eastern Front movies??? (1 Viewer)

[RedBaron]

Im trying to find some movies on the eastern front. Anyone have any suggestions on some recent/good films on this front?

I currently have Downfall, Cross of Iron and Enemy at the Gates.

 

[Scott]

Stalingrad (1993) is pretty durn depressing. Attack and Retreat (1964) is the Italian side of it.

 

[RedBaron]

Stalingrad (1993) is pretty durn depressing. Attack and Retreat (1964) is the Italian side of it.

I actually have Stalingrad. It is an excellent movie.

 

[breslau]

IHF in Chicago publish with English subtitles a lot of historical features including war movies. A number of Eastern Front movies can be found there. The website is well worth looking at. http://www.ihffilm.com/

Stalingrad (Dogs, Do You Want To Live Forever) (1958) from West Germany
Punishment Battalion 999 (1959) from West Germany
Battle of Stalingrad: The Restored Two Part Soviet WW2 Epic (1949&1950) from USSR
Come And See (1986) from USSR
The Winter War (1989) from Finland

 

[Scott]

I actually have Stalingrad. It is an excellent movie.

Good movie of a depressing subject. bbbrrrrrrrrrrrr....!

 

[PanzerAce1944]

If you have Cross of Iron this is a great movie. Plus with the scenes with Senta Berger you can't go wrong. Enemy at the Gates was the latest release if I'm not mistaken. ^&cool

 

[jazzeum]

Cross of Iron: very gritty.

 

[Mitch]

recently was Leningrad. Though, IMO it was not really very good. Nothing beats Cross of Iron. Utterly believable. what a real war movie should be like
Mitch

 

[lancer]

"Cross of Iron" was a good but flawed movie. Had real production and money problems so it didn't end up being the movie Peckinpah wanted it to be. The movie ran out of money and Peckinpah was forced to wing the ending in one hurried take with improvisation. That is why the ending is a little odd and not like the book's ending at all. The book, by the way, is an excellent read. -- Al

 

[Mitch]

Agree the book is superb but, books are always better than what ends up on screen IMO
Mitch

 

[uksubs]

The Star is worth buying :wink2:
Created by the same studio that produced "Come and See", The Star is an action packed war adventure that has been favourably compared with recent Hollywood depictions of war and inhumanity. Set during the end of the Second World War, on the Polish front separating the Russian and German armies, The Star is the call sign for a Russian scout unit being sent behind enemy lines to spy on troop movements in the knowledge that two such units have already been despatched and vanished without trace. Almost from the start the film is charged with tension as the scouts use their tracking skills to avoid detection and their killing prowess to exterminate obstacles in their way, leading to an almost unbearable climax.

 

[Scott]

"Cross of Iron" was a good but flawed movie. Had real production and money problems so it didn't end up being the movie Peckinpah wanted it to be. The movie ran out of money and Peckinpah was forced to wing the ending in one hurried take with improvisation. That is why the ending is a little odd and not like the book's ending at all. The book, by the way, is an excellent read. -- Al

Peckinpah had similar problems with Major Dundee.

 

[breslau]

Another movie, but not really "action", is the 2007 Polish film Katyn.

 

[Grognard]

Defiance with Daniel Craig...