Stalingrad (1990 film) The film was the first Soviet-American co-production in the Perestroika era. The film was poorly received, and it was Ozerov's first work which failed to secure any nominations since 1958. At 1993, the director used footage from "Stalingrad" for the frame story of his last film, "Angels of Death", about a sniper duel taking place during the battle for the city. Montage from "Stalingrad" was also included in two TV anthologies of select material from Ozerov's films, "The Tragedy of the Twentieth Century" and "The Great Captain Georgy Zhukov". Ronald Lacey makes an appearance as Winston Churchill. Stalingrad (1990 film)
She Defends the Motherland She Defends the Motherland She Defends the Motherland, () is a 1943 Soviet drama film starring Vera Maretskaya and directed by Fridrikh Ermler. It was distributed in the United States by Artkino Pictures as No Greater Love, also in 1943, with a dubbed-English soundtrack. Praskovya Lukyanova, a rural villager in the USSR, first loses her husband in battle at the outbreak of WWII, and then her only, small son, who is run over deliberately by a Nazi tank driven by a soldier wearing a eyepatch, as the Germans take over the village. Thus convicted of the need to fight back,