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Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
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The Great Battle
1957 1h 14m RU
Documentary
Synopsis
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About the heroic battle of Stalingrad during the Great Patriotic War. The prologue gives a general picture of the current situation on the fronts by the summer of 1942 - the battles at the Barents Sea, near Leningrad, in Belarus, Ukraine, and Sevastopol. Stalingrad is shown at all stages of the heroic battle. Historical documents from 1942-43 tell about the mass heroism of our soldiers, about the help of the whole country to Stalingrad during the great battle.
“Some stories are better left unspoiled.”
Credits
Behind the camera
- Director
- Maria Slavinskaya
- Writers
- Georgiy Smirnitskiy
- Languages
- Russian
- Countries
- Soviet Union
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The take
Maria Slavinskaya directs. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in Soviet Union. Dialogue in Russian.
Trivia
Things worth knowing
- 1Tight 74-minute runtime — shorter than most television pilots.
- 269 years old — a genuine piece of film history.
- 3Lean credit list — fewer than 30 people officially credited.
The technical file
- Runtime
- 74 min · 1h 14m
- Status
- Released
- Original language
- RU
Also by
Maria Slavinskaya
Production companies
Who made it
- CE
Central Studio of Documentary Films
SU
Key crew
- Camera OperatorBoris Vakar
- Camera OperatorNikolay Vikhirev
- Camera OperatorMikhail Goldbrikh
- Camera OperatorAbram Krichevsky
- Camera OperatorMikhail Poselskiy
- Camera OperatorValentin Orlyankin
- Camera OperatorAwenir Sofin
- Camera OperatorBoris Shadronov
- Camera OperatorAbram Kazakov
Release history · US
When it landed
- Theatrical1957-01-01
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