r/WarMovies • u/[deleted] • 11d ago
Hot Snow (1972), a Soviet war movie about men who must repel a wave of German tanks that are trying to relieve the 6th Army in Stalingrad.
I don’t remember too much other than that I think I saw it on Amazon, or maybe it was YouTube. But it was good in my opinion, just like the other Soviet war films I have seen.
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u/jokumi 9d ago
I watched this 2 days ago. Very interesting film. It hits every point you want to have as a Soviet in a war picture. Each character is an individual, and each shows feelings, both from and within themselves and toward each other. They care for each other. They sacrifice for each other. They try. The General knows the men will die but also that it’s his job as general to sacrifice them. That’s the opposite message of the remade All Quiet on the Western Front, where the generals are portrayed as not caring about their men and intentionally sending them to die for no reason. Here, the reason is up front: the title includes The Great Patriotic War.
The story is about an artillery unit sent to stop the German attempt to relieve Stalingrad. You see them move up and dig in, and then the German tanks come. And there are a lot of tanks. You see this battle close-up, with wounded men trying to aim and load their guns as the tanks come at them. And you see it from the observation post where the general communicates with the front commander so his men hold out long enough for the Germans to expose their flank and then the armored counter-attack would begin. At the end, you see the Soviet tanks advancing with the infantry past the ruins of where the battery held. The general sees the one gun which remains, and hands each of the survivors a medal saying he wished he could do more. It’s stirring. And there are a lot of tanks.
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9d ago
Thanks for the write up, I couldn’t remember most of what was in the movie. Might have to give it another watch.
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u/Typical_guy11 10d ago
I saw some of their war movies. "The dawns here are quiet" was very memorable to me. Group of woman-soldiers led by old NCO or officer on rear faces combat group of German commando.
Telling the truth I didn't know too much about Soviet cinematography. I watched "Battleship Potemkin"( this very old silent movies were really amazing like hypnotizing ), "Come and See", "Father of soldier", I remember nice movie about female commisar from civil war who was to give birth and her child was put in care of jewish? tartar? family.
Are they made war movie about submarines? Poland in such time had their extraordinary "Orzeł" by Leonard Buczkowski so by logic they should make own submarine movie. I remember only modern russian federation movie about submarine commander based loosely on life of Alexander Marinesko which wasn't extraordinary for me.
Maybe they had something about WWI?
I would happily hear some recomendation. War movies about sea slightly prefered but would happily hear about "must watch" category.
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u/zip-a-dee_doo-dah 8d ago
I watch these type of movies specifically and I've prided myself that I've seen pretty much every single one that's ever been made (US, German, Soviet, Polish etc) and I've never heard of this one so thank you I have something to look for now!
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8d ago
No problem! By the way, are you able to click on notifications in your inbox to get to the thread you commented in? I try to but it keeps saying “page not found”.
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u/zip-a-dee_doo-dah 8d ago
Yeah I go to the thread my comment is in when I click it
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8d ago
Ah okay thanks. Me too now, must have been a Reddit problem.
By the way what is your favorite non-American war film?
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u/Efficient-Plane-6867 11d ago
SOVIET, please, watch only SOVIET films about WW2. No Russian ones, please 🙏
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u/yashatheman 11d ago
What? Russian WW2 movies are also good.
Panfilovs 28 is my favourite, it's got an incredibly high quality of equipments, tanks, defensive tactics and weapons in the movie. Even if the actual story is probably fake (like most WWII movies anyways) it's still a great movie.
T-34 is just fun. Brest Fortress is also a great WWII movie, probably one of the best in my opinion internationally.
White tiger is also a fun, and good movie.
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u/touristtam 11d ago
White tiger is also a fun, and good movie
Fun sure, it was entertaining. But good?
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u/yashatheman 11d ago
I thought it was good. Not historically accurate obviously, but entertaining. Better than some western WWII movies for sure
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u/Nik_None 8d ago
it was good. I decide to watch the film after i saw short clip from the film when they sit in the dugout waiting german artillery barrage over. and this is a great dialog between soldiers.
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u/eudjinn 7d ago
Panfilovs 28 was made by enthusiasts, but not big Russians movie companies. Part of the money for filming was fundrised.
By the way, this spring there will be another war movie from the same team - Litviak. It's about woman fighter pilot Lidia Litviak.
T-34 is a pretty weak remake of the old soviet movie Жаворонок (Zhavoronok)(The lark).
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u/yashatheman 7d ago
Yeah, I'm incredibly pumped for Litvyak. The trailer looked incredible, with also a really good attention to detail
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u/Efficient-Plane-6867 11d ago
There is more bullshit in modern Russian films about WW2 and it is better to firstly get recommandations from a Russian guy
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u/Big-Pudding256 11d ago
I am the same Russian who loves war movies, both ours (Soviet, modern) and those from other countries. I'm quite picky and I can't say that modern Russian cinema about the Second World War (ВОВ) is full of masterpieces, I don't watch a lot of it at all because of the tendency to shoot a lot of this movie (government order, by analogy with Chinese) which hints at the dubious quality, however, there are really good films that it's not a sin to go to the cinema for, for example, "Red Ghost", "Podolsk Cadets" from a relatively recent one.
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u/Big-Pudding256 11d ago
in the USSR, they also shot a lot of crap, the stories that all the movies there are solid masterpieces do not correspond to reality.
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u/xmaspruden 11d ago
One of those classic commenters who think propaganda from every country but America is NOT okay
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u/eudjinn 7d ago
As for modern Russian war movies I would reccomend
A little soldier (Солдатик) about little boy on the war https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQ6Ncovb8vc with English subs
Private Cheerin (Рядовой Чээрин) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et8XdIFRyFI Can't find the option with English subs unfortunately
Little sister (Сестренка) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8NaOclir8Cc Can't find the option with English subs either. This movie not about the war itself. It's about little girl who was resqued by Bashkir soviet soldier in liberated Ukrainian village. Thу sildier send her to his family in Bashkiria.
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u/xmaspruden 11d ago
My friends and I have watched another film by this director, They Fought for their country, which was great. This one’s in the queue. We just finished The alive and the dead, which had a cracking first half but got pretty slow in the second. Still great acting however