1. Film director Fyodor Sergeyevich Bondarchuk and starring Thomas Kretschmann have already participated in the film "Volgograd" before. The former is the Soviet film "Volgograd Blood War" in 1989, and the latter is the German film " Stalingrad " in 1993 .
2. The house as an important scene in the film is based on the famous Volgograd landmark Домсержанта Якова Павлова .
3. "Volgograd" is the first film in Russian history to be shot entirely in 3D format, and it is also the first non-American film in the Image Maximum format.
4. The film set up a large-scale scene on an abandoned military shooting range in the English suburbs of Санкт-Петербург , which vividly reproduces the Volgograd neighborhood and some classic scenes that audiences can see in historical archive footage. It only took 6 months to build the scene, mobilize 400 people, and cost 4 million U.S. dollars.
5. The full-scale model of the film restores the famous "Children's Ring Dance" fountain, which is one of the most recognizable symbols of the Volgograd battle. The crew restored the precious photos left by the photographer ЭН Yevzerichny after the air raid on August 23, 1942.
6. The story in the film is fictitious. Ilya Dilkin wrote the script based on the archives of a large number of museums and the diaries of the participants in the battle at that time, and selected parts from Vasily Grossman’s novel " Жизнь и" The plot in Судьба .
7. The famous German movie star Tilman Valentin Schweiger rejected the invitation for the film because he did not want to play a Nazi role.
8. The filming of "Volgograd" began in September 2011, the main stage was in 2012, and the number of filming days was 79 days. Director Bondarchuk: "For me, compared to the 222 shooting days of " The Inhabited Island ", the 79-day shooting of "Volgograd" is simply fun.
9. The music of the film was composed by the famous American pianist and composer Angelo Badalamanti. He was the soundtrack for the film " Blue Velvet " by the famous American director David Lynch and the TV series "Double Peaks" and Danny. The author of the music for the film " The Beach " directed by Boyle .
10. Heavy weapons such as the Т-34 tank, the Weasel self-propelled artillery, and the No. 4 tank appeared in the film, but they were all models.
11. The No. 4 tank in the film was modified on the basis of the T-34 Soviet tank, with a turret installed on it, steel plate was welded, and the roller was covered with a guard plate, and the side was sprayed with fascist logos. The self-propelled artillery is modified by off-road vehicles. The Т-34/76 tank is a full-scale model made of plastic and plywood.
