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Movie The Great Turning Point (1945) - watch online The Great Turning Point – a 1945 Soviet feature film, a historical epic directed by Friedrich Ermler, dedicated to Battle of Stalingrad

Production: Lenfilm studio, USSR, 1945

Filmmaker: F. Ermler

Scriptwriter: B. Chirskov

Starring: M.Derzhavin Sr., P.Andrievsky, Yu.Tolubeev, A.Abrikosov

Duration: 108 minutes

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The action of the film "The Great Turning Point" takes place at the end of 1942, at the beginning of 1943. Under the fierce pressure of the enemy, the Red Army is forced to retreat with battles to the East, to Stalingrad, where the Supreme Command Headquarters plans not only to stop the enemy's advance, but also to inflict a crushing defeat on him.

For this purpose, a new commander of the front, Colonel General Muravyov, arrives in Stalingrad. He was to replace his former teacher, Colonel General Vinogradov, who saw the actions of the front differently than the Stavka had planned. Vinogradov proposed, without getting involved in the battles for the city, in which the troops would suffer huge losses, to retreat beyond the Volga and take up defense there.

Using such a large river as the Volga as a natural barrier, it was possible to hold back the enemy for as long as desired with minimal losses and calmly wait for the opening of a second front by the allies in Europe.

Despite the difference in views, or perhaps precisely because Vinogradov had his own opinion and could defend it, Muravyov offers him the position of his first deputy – chief of staff of the front, and Vinogradov accepts this offer without hesitation.

But for now Muravyov could not tell his new chief of staff about the grandiose plan that Stavka had prepared. And its essence was to tie down as many German armies as possible in Stalingrad, after which to slam the mousetrap, striking at the flanks with the forces of the reserve fronts that were secretly deployed beyond the Volga.

The operation was supposed to end with a grand encirclement of the enemy group, after which the Great Turning Point in the war in the East would come. But that would come later, and for now the Red Army units, exhausted by long battles, held a narrow strip of land in front of the Volga, and it seemed that the enemy was about to throw them into the river, and German propaganda was already reporting victorious reports about the capture of Stalingrad…