Russia's foreign-language Oscar entry and first Imax 3D release is big, loud, full of explosions and awash in stereotypes. The Battle of Stalingrad, sometimes called the bloodiest single battle on ...

Philippe Reinhardt, left, and Mariya Smolnikova star in the Russian-made World War II epic 'Stalingrad.' (Sony Pictures, via AP) It is, despite its IMAX and 3D, very much an old war movie. You have a ...

If you’re going to make a movie about the bloodiest battle in human history, perhaps there’s no place for subtlety. “Stalingrad” goes for big explosions and bigger theatrics, and it works. The first ...

T here a re few subjects more sacred in Russian iconography (a word that nation would readily understand) than the battle of Stalingrad. Not many battles have caused such an abundance of casualties.

"Stalingrad" is the biggest box-office hit in Russia and the first Russian language film produced with IMAX 3D technology. Fyodor Bondarchuk's wartime saga focuses on a melodramatic tale told amid the ...

A film about the Battle of Stalingrad has become a success story for the local Russian film market. Stalingrad, which is Russia's first IMAX 3D movie, has become one of its highest-grossing after ...

The Russian 3-D blockbuster, Stalingrad, which will be released for a week in IMAX theatres, begins not in the midst of the bloody Second World War battle but in Japan in 2011, in the aftermath of the ...

The steamroller that is Fyodor Bondarchuk’s 3D extravaganza “Stalingrad,” bulldozing its way through B.O. records in Russia and China, is big, loud and full of explosions. It’s also awash in ...

Russia's foreign-language Oscar entry and first Imax 3D release is big, loud, full of explosions and awash in stereotypes. The Battle of Stalingrad, sometimes called the bloodiest single battle on ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Stalingrad, the first Russian film in Imax 3D, is a blowhard blockbuster mixed with boutique war drama. The screen ...