Stalingrad: Film 1

Directed by Yuri Ozerov

With Mikhail Ulyanov, Archil Gomiashvili, Sergey Nikonenko, Boris Nevzorov and Bruno Frejndlikh

In January 1942, Adolf Hitler appoints Fedor von Bock to command Army Group South and supervise Operation Blau. The German forces advance in the south of Russia, scattering the Soviets and approaching Stalingrad, that seems on the verge of falling to the enemy's hands. The movie ends with Vasily Chuikov assuming command of the 62nd Army at September.