Top 5 Soviet movies that showed WWII from a different angle Sergei Bondarchuk/Моsfilm, 1975 War movies are usually about heavy fighting and loss of life. But WWII became embedded in people’s hearts, not only because it was the most devastating and deadly war ever fought on Russian soil, but also because pain, anguish and sufferings stayed locked in people’s hearts long after the war was technically over.
The real challenge for Russian filmmakers was to tackle the subject of war on the big screen from a different perspective, showing a true human disaster that the war had caused.
It basically left a hole in people’s hearts, with physical injuries and emotional pain being only the tip of the iceberg. To fight fire with fire, people needed to go through a catharsis while watching the war movies – to hear the cries of their dead brothers and heal their wounded souls.