Let's put it this way. When you Americans were filming Patton, we were filming The Liberation, a 7.5 hour long war movie focusing on Kursk, the crossing of the Dniepr, Operation Bagration, and the Siege of Berlin.
Why is it better? Well, compare the Americans' idea of a tank battle, with those of the Soviets. Just look here: Part 1, Part 2.
See the difference? :P
Besides, T-55s make much more convincing Tigers than M-48s :)
Have a very nice day.
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Damn. Now I have to see the whole thing.
I hope there's a way to get the original Russian version with subtitles in the US. I could find seven and a half hours to watch that.
I hope there's a way to get the original Russian version with subtitles in the US. I could find seven and a half hours to watch that.
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Dakarne: it's London.
Thank god for Tennessee Harold Ford protecting us from nuclear vegemite. - Petrosjko
Major Reilly: Air Command
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Damn, that wasn't bad. It wasn't the most realistic warfilm (snip) I've seen but then it is the 1960's and IMO, doesn't fall flat trying to do the Eastern Front justice.
In fact earlier in the SDN chatroom I was recounting some details of a "Spanish Blue Division" -- an all volunteer Spanish attachment to the German Army that served on that infamous Eastern Front, though mostly around Leningrad, not Kursk at all. Still, across it's short life it had it's fair share of decimation: of 47,000 Spanish men who served in the Division, 22,000 or %47 became casualties. The story outlined 3 examples in particular that were typical of the Eastern Front and this unit's history:
1) a %95 casualty rate by a 206 man ski company in action around Lake Ilmen, Jan 1942
2) a single officer, 7 sergeants and 20 men of the El Segunda Battalion that survived at Poselok and
THOSE are 3 examples of what that movie has to try and live up to. The scale at the very least was awesome.
(to say nothing of seeing, and I quote: "a comrade impaled to the ground by an incoming Russian shell")
In fact earlier in the SDN chatroom I was recounting some details of a "Spanish Blue Division" -- an all volunteer Spanish attachment to the German Army that served on that infamous Eastern Front, though mostly around Leningrad, not Kursk at all. Still, across it's short life it had it's fair share of decimation: of 47,000 Spanish men who served in the Division, 22,000 or %47 became casualties. The story outlined 3 examples in particular that were typical of the Eastern Front and this unit's history:
1) a %95 casualty rate by a 206 man ski company in action around Lake Ilmen, Jan 1942
2) a single officer, 7 sergeants and 20 men of the El Segunda Battalion that survived at Poselok and
-- WWII Magazine, Sep 05.3) wrote:Black Wednesday, as Krasny Bor came to be called, 75 percent of the Spaniards who fought were killed or wounded, a staggering 3,645 casualties among the total complement of 5,608 soldiers.
THOSE are 3 examples of what that movie has to try and live up to. The scale at the very least was awesome.
(to say nothing of seeing, and I quote: "a comrade impaled to the ground by an incoming Russian shell")
