Anyone seen these 3 WWII related german movies?

[Skybird]

I recommend to check out - Soviet-made movies about WWII, made after the war. No joke. Most of them are propaganda movies, yes, but there are a few most beautifully shining gems of a most fragile visual language and deep humanity. When germany was still devided, we got Eastgerman TV programs as well, and there they broadcasted many Soviet movies. Mostly it was bad propaganda, but occasionally they showed extraordinary good, beautiful movies. Unfortunately, I cannot remember names and titles, I have some scenes and some films on mind that I never forgot and that still touch me today, but I cannot attribute them to a title or director. Too bad. You need advise from somebody knowing.

[Dowly]

Originally Posted by Skybird

I recommend to check out - Soviet-made movies about WWII, made after the war. No joke. Most of them are propaganda movies, yes, but there are a few most beautifully shining gems of a most fragile visual language and deep humanity. When germany was still devided, we got Eastgerman TV programs as well, and there they broadcasted many Soviet movies. Mostly it was bad propaganda, but occasionally they showed extraordinary good, beautiful movies. Unfortunately, I cannot remember names and titles, I have some scenes and some films on mind that I never forgot and that still touch me today, but I cannot attribute them to a title or director. Too bad. You need advise from somebody knowing.

Only seen one Soviet-made movie so far and that was "Come and See",
liked it very much. Althought the long cuts and the platant demonizing of
the germans almost ruined it for me.

All in all, russia is one of those languages that really bugs me in movies, dunno why,
it just does. But I have been planning on watching Stalker finally in the near
future.

[Oberon]

Battle of Moscow looks quite good from what I've seen of it.

Don't know what your Russian is like Dowly, but it's here:

The tanks are a bit dodgy in places, but not as bad as Battle of the Bulge

[Skybird]

Originally Posted by Dowly

Only seen one Soviet-made movie so far and that was "Come and See",
liked it very much. Althought the long cuts and the platant demonizing of
the germans almost ruined it for me.

All in all, russia is one of those languages that really bugs me in movies, dunno why,
it just does. But I have been planning on watching Stalker finally in the near
future.

That is a better situation in Germany, we do language dubs on all and everything. And we are very good in doing so. Often the German voices the studios choose match the actor better than the actor's natural one! Textlines in a movie most of us find extremely annoying and distracting.

And not all Soviet movies demonise the Germans, though most do - that are the ones that also hopelessly overglorify the role of the Russian soldiers. But the movies I have on mind do not explicitly center on the Germans, the war is just a background against which the story is being told. One film I remember is about a girlk on a Russian farm waiting for her love to return from the front. Simplistic and beautifully played, ordinary life, a strong and natural human touch. A rumour is heared that he got killed. She is desparate, gets over it, marries another one. Other young soldiers return, celebrate and dance with their girls by the fire. She stays by herself, but with a few shy look at a new man her life already starts to set for a new and hopeful direction, despite her sadness. Later her early love returns, alive, and finds his girl married. World collapses, world raises again. All without any Hollywood pathos or sentimentalism, but still told in a humane tone, and full of understanding for the implications of man'S imperfect ways, filmed in black-white and with calm images of the landscape and farmer's life. It is not the famous movie "The Cranes are flying". I would really like to know what the film's title is that I mean, it touched me so intensely like only few other movies.

The bombastic battle dramas usually are not my taste, not the 40s/50s/60s Hollywood productions and not the Soviet counterparts as well. I find both very dumb.

[August]

There's this German war movie I saw awhile back you guys might like. It's called "The Boat" or something like that...

[Herr-Berbunch]

Originally Posted by August

There's this German war movie I saw awhile back you guys might like. It's called "The Boat" or something like that...

I think you'll find it was U-571.




*runs and hides from flak*