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Stalingrad review

Bidding to be ‘The Russian Saving Private Ryan ’, Fedor Bondarchuk’s film loosely retells the true story of Pavlov’s House: a single platoon that managed to hold a building, 300 -style, for a year against waves of Nazis. It’s a cinematic no-brainer, of course, but one that is marred by …

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