compare movie industry ocean tendencies observe surface driven strong hollywood marketing force saw war movies like saving private ryan thin red line apocalypse full metal jacket underneath splashy waves grow silence time time less known pearls pick one look carefully it wonder pearl lie almost unknown already crownbr br stalingrad gem why bunch multimillion dollars rated actors no thousand extras no breathtaking spectacular shiny computerized visual effects all so whats special well one word pure past reality recreated transposed celluloid fifty years later tragedy bloody battle history here filthy wounded soldiers russian civilians lost everything invasion burning villages collapsing buildings decayed suburbs gunfires explosions tanks flames soldiers shot burned alive ground tanks pits shred pieces  got all real horror elsewhere people reduced simple pawns without power change anything soldiers follow film try leave combat zone fail civilians stay prostration middle nowhere crying children killed mercyless huge grinding machine war melt together humans equipment villages cities  ask victims destruction overbr br in collective insanity group german soldiers struggle survive keep least minimum level normality duty fight bravely but everyone know battle almost lost people start loose confidence faith see people abandoned plan desert struggle catch last plane berlin full wounded bad injured soldiers treated simulants shot forced execute small group russian civilians including young boy later discovered place literally full ceiling food drinks  destined superior officers course one one drop dead end movie one bitter depressing touching ending ever saw magnificent score munich philarmonic orchestra war destroyed everything pathbr br this movie mustsee everyone true movielover hisher collection strong antiwar message must warning us unfortunately mankind never learn politicians selfdestruction dna human pain seem last forever enough reasonable stop war