Tanks-snow-and-movie-shooting (new Stalingrad movie being filmed in Russia)

EnglishRussia ^ | 12-29-11 | Kulchik

[dynachrome]

Shooting the Life And Fate movie took place at a tank range Alabino. Welcome to the movie set with a lot of tanks, snow and other interesting things.

[dynachrome]

“Brest Fortress”

is up on youtube (or was a couple of months ago). Very good movie.

[LiveFree99]

I am confident that not everything in TFS is true, although I cannot call it a total fraud without more proof. There are war books out there that purport to be true that are complete frauds.

[Larry381]

Ah, OK. I see it on Amazon, used, for $9. My old Company Commander had us lieutenants each read a different book for discussion after work. I drew “The Forgotten Soldier” by Guy Sajer. He was a French national who enlisted in the German Army and was sent to the Eastern Front. What he talks about in that book is just incredible. I honestly felt (and still kind of do) that he had to have been making some of it up since it just seemed impossible that ANYONE could survive what he said he survived.

My uncle who died in 1982 enlisted in the Wehrmacht when he was 19 and served in Russia & Poland until 1945 when he was captured by the Soviets. He told me some of the most amazing stories about combat in Russia and believe it or not he was wounded four times. After he was released by the Russians in 1951 he became a US citizen and some of the most priceless memories of my youth were listening to him and my other uncle (who served in North Africa) argue about World War 2.

BTW If you are interested in some good picture of the Eastern front I posted quite a few in a thread about World War 2. You'll have to keep scrolling down because there are quite a few.

Eastern Front

[dfwgator]

Here is the German movie, “Stalingrad”, which shows Stalingrad from the German perspective.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ilB2ukvXXfc&feature=related

[dfwgator]

The only good thing about Enemy At the Gates was Rachel Weisz.