Stalingrad
“ONE MILLION NAZIS COULDN'T TAKE IT!”
A Soviet documentary chronicling the Battle of Stalingrad, one of the turning points of World War II. Filmed on the front lines, it depicts the brutal devastation of the city, the resilience of its defenders, and the eventual Soviet counteroffensive that encircled and defeated the German 6th Army. Released internationally—with the U.S. version retitled The City That Stopped Hitler: Heroic Stalingrad—the film served both as a record of the Red Army’s victory and as a powerful work of wartime propaganda.
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Leonid Varlamov Director · John Wexley Writer Vasiliy Grossman Writer
United States release September 4, 1943 · Produced in Russia · Production Paramount Pictures
Production
Tsentralnaya Studiya Kinokhroniki
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Paramount Pictures
Studio
Russia
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Original title
Сталинград
Original language
Russian
Spoken on screen
Russian
Release dates
Russia · May 14, 1943
Theatrical
United States · September 4, 1943
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June 15, 1945 · Theatrical
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