Stalingrad is a 1990 two-part war film written and directed by Yuri Ozerov, and produced by Quincy Jones and Clarence Avant. Revolving around the eponymous Battle of Stalingrad, the film was a co-production between the Soviet Union and East Germany. It stars an ensemble cast featuring Powers Boothe, Mikhail Ulyanov, Bruno Freindlich, Fernando Allende, Sergei Garmash, Nikolai Kryuchkov, and Ronald Lacey.
Original film poster
Yuri Ozerov was a Soviet-Russian film director and screenwriter. He directed twenty films between 1950 and 1995. Ozerov's works won him many awards, among them the title People's Artist of the USSR which was conferred upon him in 1977.
From left to right: Ozerov, Oleg Uryumtsev, Fedor Bondarchuk and Tigran Keosayan in 1987, during the filming of Stalingrad.
Nikolai and Yuri Ozerov's tombstone.