there be 25 comment and if you take the time to read them all . greatness in all aspect of film making . epic score and masterful writing and directing and act . this very moving film and be a documentary disguise a a drama . this be the only film that have several real tiger tank in one scene . you be transport back in time and like a fly on the wall observe the real russian people fight the great patriotic war . this great movie be band during the cold war and the united state role be greatly distort . but that be politics right . million of russian be kill civilian be kill without hesitation . the eastern front war between hitler and stalin be personal . they slaughter each other . no quarter be give nor expect . whole army be destroy . city bomb to ruin and then fight over to the last man . this movie record the pain and suffering and desperation and struggle and the sacrifice and most of all the character of the great russian people .