Recently viewed movies.

Stalingrad. I liked it immensely! I expected something awful, like Alexander Anesyan's "Bastards," which was also heavily advertised for a long time. But instead, I saw an excellent film about a terrible war. Fyodor Bondarchuk made his best film, which will deservedly win many awards and become the film of the year in Russia. There are some flaws, such as the incomprehensible German soldier walking by a house filled with Russian soldiers, many of whom have lost everything, to get water. The astonishing resilience of the main characters is also unsettling; they are riddled with machine-gun fire, dragged for a long time to the German headquarters, and they don't bleed, but instead, they kill the main German there. This is not typical of a war drama but rather something from Hollywood. But these are minor things; the two-and-a-half-hour film flies by in an instant. The battle scenes are excellently filmed, the special effects are amazing, and the attack by our forces at the beginning of the film is worth seeing. The characters are well-developed, and the heroines are beautiful. Even the German officer is not a stereotypical fascist but a smart, experienced, and strong opponent. 9 out of 10, the best domestic film I've seen in recent years.