Stalingrad — Russia
The 2013 German-Russian co-production depicts the Battle of Stalingrad through a German platoon holding one factory building across the brutal urban combat of winter 1942-43.
The Battle of Stalingrad (August 1942 – February 1943) was the turning point of the Eastern Front. Over 800,000 Axis casualties and 1.1 million Soviet casualties made it the bloodiest battle in human history. Germany's 6th Army, 300,000 men, was encircled and surrendered on 2 February 1943. The city itself, and particularly the Mamayev Kurgan hill, changed hands multiple times during brutal street-by-street fighting.