[C19fan]

Only a regime like the Soviet Union can get tens of thousands of real soldiers to serve as extras for the awesome battle scenes from that movie. One of the few redeeming cultural achievements from the Soviet Union era.

[Borges]

“One of the few redeeming cultural achievements from the Soviet Union era.”

Well the music...

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

WATERLOO was also good. Battle scenes were awesome. And to think, NO COMPUTER GENERATED EFFECTS. That was a real army in the battles.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The American-Italian version, with Henry Fonda, from 1956 is like Cliff’s Notes compared to the Russian Russian Cinema Council version.

The Kultur full screen version is krap.

[GeronL]

North Korea can get a cast of 100,000 to put on a show in a stadium for a handful of commie officials and a few tourists...

and if anyone messed up, they’d probably vanish along with their entire family

[ek_hornbeck]

Only a regime like the Soviet Union can get tens of thousands of real soldiers to serve as extras for the awesome battle scenes from that movie. One of the few redeeming cultural achievements from the Soviet Union era.

Some of Sergei Eisenstein's Stalin-era propaganda films have some of the best soundtracks in all of film history, thanks to Sergei Prokofiev (Alexander Nevsky, etc. The regime could force its most talented people to apply their genius to projects that ought to have been given to hacks.