If it feels like there are a lot of films about Stalingrad, you're not wrong.

A quick search in your movie streaming service of choice, or if you're so lucky, a brick and mortar video store will reveal 10 of them although only one to our

knowledge has a scene depicting a Rachel Vice hand job. It's enough film content

to spin off a podcast of its own and I've already pitched Eerwolf a show about

German Russian World War II films with an emphasis on fighter plane aerodynamics slash equestrian cavalry enclosures hosted by

fifth-year college seniors from acting school with limb fractures called

the Stahl and Grad stall stall stall

stahl and Grad cast cast.

For comparison, there are only five more films made about Pearl Harbor,

and that's if you don't disqualify the Michael Bay movie, which we do.

This Stalingrad film is the most successful Russian film of all time, earning 51 million domestically

in Russia and $68 million globally. 1 million dollars globally and while the Friendly Fire Project

examines how a country views itself by how it tells its war story we are also

very interested in what other countries consume for entertainment.

Stalingrad accomplishes both.

But does that say anything about the importance of this battle in the story of World War II and the historical record.

Well, in our experience, watching war films, sometimes quantity doesn't equal quality.

And this is a film that tries very hard to project quality.

Shout on state-of-the-art equipment, much of it in 3D. The film has a glossiness to

it that could attract as many film goers as it could

conceivably repulse and its director, Fador Bondertrchuk, is cut from that

same cloth as Michael Bayh, polished music video director turned film director.

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