A bit behind the curve on this news, I posted the trailer for Fedor Bondarchuk’s Stalingrad a few days ago without knowing it had been announced last week as Russia’s official Oscar candidate.
Russian film director Fyodor Bondarchuk on Wednesday presented the Moscow premiere of his World War II drama Stalingrad, an epic about one of the bloodiest battles in history, and which Russia has picked as its Oscar entry.
Made with a budget of US$30 million (S$37.4 million) including financing from the government, Bondarchuk’s new film is the first Russian film to be shot entirely in 3D.
The film focuses on the battlefield friendship between five Soviet soldiers who are desperately defending a strategically vital apartment building against far-better armed Nazi occupiers. (straitstimes)
Bondarchuk’s father, Sergei, won the Oscar in 1968 with “War and Peace.”