Today we talk about the movie "The Battle of Lezhev".
Title Ржев/ Rzhev (2019), alias The Battle of Lezhev.
Vyacheslav Kondradev
（Vyacheslav Kondratyev）
(October 30, 1920 - September 24, 1993)
The Russian war film The Battle of Lezhev is based on Vyacheslav Kondratyev's novel The Redemption of Blood (Sasha). Born in 1920 in poltava, a city in central and eastern Ukraine, the author died in Moscow, Russia, in 1993 and fought in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union.
He personally killed twelve enemy troops in the battle for Ovsyannikovo, and was later awarded the Medal of Courage, where he completed the novel based on his own recollection of his experiences.
The protagonist of the novel, Sashka, is a young soldier who works on the front lines near Lezhev.
The novel records through Sashka what he saw and heard in this battle, and the basic content is similar to the plot of the film.
The whole story can be summed up in one sentence: "War, blood, dirt, corpses, but in all of this, the most important thing is the belief in the victory of the human soul." ”
The "Battle of Lezhev" is the "Battle of Lezhev-Sechovka" and lasted from January 1942 to March 1943.
The campaign revolved around Lezhev, Sechovka and Vyazma, and was a very famous battle during World War II.
The Western Front of the Red Army, the Kalinin Front, and the German Army Group Center competed for the "Lezhev salient" held by the German army, which Germany called the "Key Defense of Lezhev".
The battle, with its massive attrition of troops, was known as the "Lezhev Meat Grinder". The Soviets lost 1.5 million troops, the Germans lost 300,000 troops, and the Soviet-German casualty ratio exceeded 4:1.
The Battle of Lezhev was overshadowed by the glow of the Battle of Stalingrad of the same period,
The Soviet Union won the Victory in the Battle of Stalingrad and reversed the situation on the Soviet-German battlefield, which was not only a turning point in the Soviet-German War, but also a historic turning point in World War II, and the Soviet Army basically grasped the strategic initiative and began to shift from strategic defense to strategic offensive.
The significance of the Battle of Lezhev for the entire Eastern Front was that it contained a large number of German troops, indirectly leading to the collapse of the Sixth Army. But the high casualties can be seen as a rare defeat of Marshal Zhukov of the Soviet Army.
Understand the background of the film, and then watch the film, you will find that this is a war movie with no beginning and no end.
If you don't look at the above background story introduction, just watch this "Battle of Lezhev", and you will feel that the second monk is confused.
The film is vague about the causes and consequences of this battle, on the one hand, the low-level soldiers cannot understand the whole picture of the entire battle, on the other hand, it is also a hard wound to adapt the script.
The film is based on a novel, telling the story of what low-level soldiers see and hear, and they can only feel the war through their own personal experience.
Whether used as bait or used as a diversionary force, all a soldier can do is obey orders. Veterans who have experienced many battles have long been indifferent to tomorrow, they know that living one more day is to earn one more day, just thinking about killing a few more enemies and doing their best for the final victory, which is even more valuable.
If the audience opens the perspective of God, or from the perspective of the commander, they will know that those people will face a mortal end.
The narrative is the underlying perspective, and the viewing of the film is the perspective of God, which creates a sense of separation when the audience watches the movie.
To be honest, the drama of "The Battle of Lezhev" is really amazing.
If the reader is reading a novel, he can bring himself into the perspective of the low-level soldiers and make it into a movie, and he can't play like this when he becomes a group portrait.
The battle known as the "Lezhev Meat Grinder" was filmed as if it were in the house. The Soviet Germans repeatedly tugged around the protrusion, and the film spent a lot of time not on the battlefield, but infighting.
The Germans seem to be the background board of the film, not the enemy.
Whoever does not miss the Soviet Union has no conscience.
Whoever wants to rebuild the Soviet Union is very stupid.
Since it is a Film Made in Russia, it is natural to conform to Russian political correctness.
The political correctness in Russia now is that the Russian nation is great and just, and the Soviet regime is an evil existence that needs to be criticized.
Russia wants to show the legitimacy of its regime, and if it wants to move closer to the West, it will try to belittle the history of the Soviet Union when it finds an opportunity. But now Russia can now show off its family foundation, all left by the Soviet Union.
To create a World War II film in this very delicate background, it is no less difficult than dancing with shackles.
In this case, the creative team chose to film Zhukov's "Lezhev Meat Grinder" instead of the Battle of Stalingrad, where the red flag fluttered and the steel torrent flowed.
The final result is the content of the film, in order to prevent everyone from missing the Soviet Union, the film "The Battle of Lezhev" spares no effort to be awkward, and even weakens the german army's appearance, and it is the Red Army itself that becomes the villain.
To denigrate the martyrs is to forget the original, and this "Battle of Lezhev" makes people see how the new regime will stigmatize the martyrs after the Soviets lose the country.
The battle of Lezhev is very prominent, and the war scenes in the film are well depicted.
Several of the film's battle highlights are worth the ticket price.
Old Maozi makes a movie to give people the feeling that it is a miracle of vigorous force, is not it arms, fierce can be built, and there is not enough explosion.
The details are also very well described, as small as a kettle and a bayonet, which always reminds the audience of the cruelty of war.
Negative teaching materials for literary drama,
A positive case of martial arts.
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