I doubt it'll be very authentic. Hollywood will probably make some sort of a happy end there.
And while we are on the topic of movies...
The soviet movies on the topic of WWII were usually quite realistic in the sense that they would end in a tragedy where almost all the main heroes and heroins die. I can recall only a few of them: "State border of the USSR" (about the early days of invasion), "Hot Snow" (about battles near Moscow, about what it was like to serve in the infantry there - stopping german tanks with 45-mm guns, granades and Molotov cocktails - almost the whole infantry unit got wiped out, but they didn't let the tanks through to Moscow), "Seventeen moments of spring" (this is a classic about a Soviet counter-intelligence officer, placed high in german intelligence, frustrating german efforts for a separate peace with the US and Britain at the end of the war; you would be hard pressed to find anyone in the former SU who wouldn't know aboout SS Shtandarten-fuhrer Shtirlitz (Colonel Isayev); this B&W movie has been hugely popular since the 70-s when it was made; I guess they even chose B&W just to make it look more like WWII-era), there were many more...
There were some aviation movies too - "Chronicles of a dive bomber" (about a Pe-2 crew), "Torpedo-bombers" (Il-4s, with excruciating scene of a flaming Il-4, a navigator burning alive, taraning a nazi ship), "Only old-hands go into battle" (about fighter pilots), then there was some movie about Normandie-Neman regiment, I can't recall the exact name (the scene I remember from that is a French pilot mistaking the Russian word for "to eat" with a french "bed" (couchette) and a faux pas with a pretty soviet girl that resulted from that), then there was some movie about creation and production of the Il-2 (not a documentary).
As they say - "knowledge of a foreign language opens a new world". There is a collective memory of a nation of 200mln people reflected in books and movies that the US public will never know.
Some of those movies last for 5-7 hours, so they were broken up in manageable chunks.
I wonder if any copies of these survived the turmoil of the early 90-s.
BTW, there is a common conviction in fSU that Japan didn't attack because it got beaten in Manchuria (river Khalkhin-Gol) in the late 30-s, so they were not that eager to repeat the experience even though Hitler urged them too (the information was obtained by a Soviet counter-intelligence officer Richard Zorge, who was a german military attache in Japan at the time; his life alone deserves a movie; suprisingly I can't remember a single one). Plus a considerable number of divisions were tied to Far Eastern borders anyways.
About how important Stalingrad was:
At
http://history.vif2.ru/library/battles/battle1.html I found a scanned image of the following statement by Theodore Roosevelt:
"In the name of the people of the United States of America.
I present this scroll to the City of Stalingrad
to commemorate our admiration for
its gallant defenders whose courage,
fortitude, and devotion during the siege
of September 13, 1942 to January 31, 1943
will inspire forever the hearts of all
free people. Their glorious victory
stemmed the tide of invasion and
marked the turning point in the
war of the Allied Nations against
the forces of aggression."
[This message has been edited by Wisk-=VF-101=- (edited 02-26-2001).]
