However, despite being pretty poor fare it did have some great imagery, and was very atmospheric, capturing the plight faced by the civilians very well. On one side the German high command are seen waging a war on calorific intake (starving the defenders) from their plush HQ, on the other Soviet children are licking the wallpaper for the flour paste that had been used to hang it.
One of the two main characters is a police officer and from a gaming point if view could easily be included in a militia unit through a simple paint job (black uniform with light blue tabs). This has got me thinking about extending my Winter War project (when I eventually get the miniatures) to include a 1941 Leningrad offshoot, using the BTD Germans in greatcoats I bought earlier in the year - it'll give me an excuse to buy some of the Crusader winter Soviets!
So, whilst not a brilliant film, it may be the spark to something new on the miniatures front next year...
When I read your opening description I thought it was a movie I had seen, but then realised it was a different battle. There is a Russian movie on the 1941 attack on Brest-Litovsk, called Fortress of War. The uniforms were good, but seemed too much charging and hand to hand fighting like in western movie (Custer last stand type of thing) and the Russians seemed to never miss a shot. They did a good job of showing Nazi dirty tricks.
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