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- Made up of excerpts from diaries and letters written by residents of the city and soldiers from both sides, this moving documentary unfolds the story of the Battle of Stalingrad during the Second World War through the voices of those who lived through it. If these testimonies prove to be precious for historians, describing the events in great detail, they above all echo the fate of men and women confronted with war and death.
- The "Battle for Moscow" began 80 years ago in October. The Wehrmacht tried to take Moscow. The film tells the story of a fateful year - Moscow 1941, when the survival of the Soviet capital was on the knife's edge - when the war front approached ever more threatening. The film tells from a perspective from which the epochal drama has never been seen: a chorus of voices from Moscow, official and private statements recorded in letters, statements, but above all diary entries. They reflect everyday Moscow life in the last months of peace and in the first months of the war. Experiences, feelings, moods, hopes and expectations, worries, fears and fears. Diaries provide valuable historical evidence Private notes and letters in the Soviet Union were often destroyed by their authors or by family members. For fear of searches, arrests, confiscation or theft. Anyone who wrote made himself suspicious. The few diaries that have survived to this day are all the more valuable. Amazing historical and psychological evidence. A wealth of observations, thoughts and reflections, often of high narrative quality. What was it like in Moscow when preparations for the Barbarossa company were in full swing in Berlin? How did the city respond to the news of the German attack on June 22nd? And the days after that - with the enemy bombing raids and vague reports from the front? And how was it in the Soviet metropolis on October 16, when the situation at the front seemed hopeless and it was said: "Save yourself, who can"? Until finally, on November 7th, Stalin appeared before the people with a persistent speech. The Soviet counter-offensive began a month later.
- It was one of the great crimes of the Second World War: from 1941 to 1944, a total of 872 days, the siege and starvation of Leningrad by the German Wehrmacht on Hitler's orders lasted. Over a million people fell victim to the blockade, most of them dying of hunger. Countless of these starving people wrote diaries with the last of their strength, and cameramen filmed in the paralyzed city. Evidence from the hell of the siege, many of the film recordings, but above all the written memories on which this documentary on the occasion of the 80th anniversary of the liberation is based, remained under lock and key after the war. The voices of those who had suffered through this terrible time should not be heard by anyone, because they did not fit the pathos of the Leningrad heroic song that was officially sung. Most of the recordings come from women. The writers feared neither the enemy nor the Communist Party or Stalin, who often proved incompetent in providing for the population.
- Ernst Nolte triggered the so-called historians' dispute with his article "The Past That Will Not Pass" published in 1986. In it he placed the "Red Terror" of revolutionary Russia and the crimes of the Nazis in a causal connection.
- The Brest-Litovsk Peace Treaty was a dictated peace. With him, however, the German Empire, whose days were already numbered, recognized Soviet Russia, a young state that had only existed for a few months. And so German-Soviet relations began. After the First World War, Germany and the Russian Soviet Republic were internationally isolated. Lenin's foreign policy officers did everything they could to make a pact with Germany, and they achieved their goal in Rapallo, where a hesitant German Foreign Minister Rathenau signed a treaty he didn't actually want. He paid for it with his life. It is something other than treaties and political calculations that made Rapallo possible in the first place: the closeness and sympathy between Germans and Russians that was always evident and that even survived the atrocities of the Second World War. Maya Turovskaya, author of the Soviet film classic "Ordinary Fascism," calls the two great wars "fratricidal wars." And the German ambassador von derschulenburg, whose greatest diplomatic success, to his own chagrin, was the Hitler-Stalin pact with which the two dictators divided Europe between themselves, spoke in amazement that the Russians' love for Germany "couldn't be killed." be. The film by Artem Demenok and Andreas Christoph Schmidt tells of the eventful history of both countries and the people in them. One of the two states ceased to exist more than a quarter of a century ago. Nevertheless, it is a story that continues to have an impact today, because its images continue to have an impact. Their myths, enemy images and projections still shape how we perceive each other. A history of ideologies - their fight against each other went to the death, the extinction of the other - here racist, there political-ideologically based - was meant to be existential. It was about destruction. Then again, at other times, about coexistence: in friendly hostility - hostile friendship.
- The German army captured during WW2 five million Soviet soldiers. Of those prisoners of war, 3,3 million died by starvation, cold, hunger, sickness and murder.
- The German invasion of Soviet-Russia seen from the Russian perspective. Documents and footage from the Russian archives and eye-witnesses also show how Stalin's propaganda machine invented 'acts of Russian heroism' in order to boost the morale and the resistance of the people.
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