Stalingrad

Released: 2015-05-05

Runtime: 46 minutes

Episode Overview

The battle of Stalingrad cost the lives of 800,000 Soviets and 400,000 Germans in less than three months. Hitler wanted at all costs to conquer the city which bore the name of Stalin. The Soviet general Tchouikov responded to the tanks and planes of the German general Paulus by the snipers and the urban guerilla. Every day thousands of Soviet soldiers crossed the Volga to replace the dead. Meanwhile, in the utmost secrecy, the Red Army gathered and equipped a million men to encircle the Nazi enemy. This operation, codenamed Uranus, was commanded by General Zhukov.

Series Overview

The noisy commemoration, celebrated by the Germans in 1993, reached a peak. It was only a question of reconciliation between the adversaries of yesterday and reciprocal pardon. Very laudable intentions which perhaps conceal a memory problem. And if, to too much want to turn the page, the Germans did not come to lose their memories? If history, covered by noise, became mute? If the faults were changed into "details"? The grandchildren of the combatants react in front of the camera to the evocation of these questions and to the spectacle of the vast market of commemorations.