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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0215750/

During World War II, a lucky Soviet soldier is fictionalized into a hero, but he truly earns that distinction only to find himself up against the German’s very best.

With a good pace and atmosphere, this movie is riveting.

• Based on Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad (1973 book), by William Craig

  • ISBN 0-14-139017-4

• 4:30 — Red Army (Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army)
• 5:45 — Stalingrad = Volgograd
• 6:00 — 1942-09-20
• 6:30 — Oh, they have English accents. How.. uh.. Russian.
• 9:30 — Yeah, things were that bad. The Soviets lost more people than.. every other participant in World War II combined, I think.

• 23:00 — Oh dude, that’s Danny DeVito!

  • Wait, no.. that’s Bob Hoskins (as Nikita Khrushchev)
• 24:45 — Kursk, Kiev, Minsk
• 33:00 — Footwraps, and yes these were in common use.
• 35:45 — I like how the bad guys speak German language to other them.
• 38:00 — Yes, there are oriental-ish people who are Russian through and through. This is not only because of a massive border and blurring on that edge but I suspect because of the Mongol Horde.
• 44:30 — A trained sniper, acting like she is? Or is she just some random soldier?
• 48:30 — Class conflict
• 53:30 — Is he.. Australian?
• 1:11:00 — He doesn’t have a helmet, and his pendant is rather shiny.
• 1:15:15 — Shoot his gun.
• 1:23:00 — Did he not check for the sniper’s body?
• 1:23:45 — Proverb, Ural (region)
• 1:33:15 — Uh, why would either side trust a double-agent kid?
• 1:35:30 — Sulphur
• 1:35:30 — I guess I could look up the medallions, but I won’t.
• 1:37:15 — Did I just see a jump cut?
• 1:41:45 — I promise you lots of stuff, love me!
• 1:43:30 — Using him, called it.
• 1:47:30 — What the fuck, dude. No guy would act like that without talking to his bro. Well, fighting. Oh, I guess this is pussy-boy’s way of fighting.
• 1:51:15 — Angry woman will be surprisingly-skilled trope?
• 1:53:30 — Or.. not.

• 1:55:45 —

  Man will always be man. There is no new man.

  We tried so hard to create a society that is equal, where there’d be nothing to envy your neighbour. But there’s always something to envy. A smile. A friendship. Something you don’t have and want to appropriate.

  In this world, even a Soviet one, there will always be rich and poor. Rich in gifts. Poor in gifts. Rich in love. Poor in love.

• 2:03:30 — How did she write to him?

• Also, wasn’t he unpersoned by the friend-not-friend-dude?