Durant la Segona Guerra Mundial, dos homes lluiten a la batalla d'Stalingrad. La destresa d'en Vassili Zaitsev, un franctirador, impressiona Danilov, un oficial responsable de la propaganda soviètica. Danilov fa que Vassili esdevingui un heroi nacional, però tots dos s'enamoren de la mateixa dona, la Tanya, que lluita amb ells com un soldat més.
Fifteen critical battles that changed the outcome of a world at war and altered our destinies—forever! Now, from the vantage point of 50 years after, from files opened for the first time, from action films and battle footage never seen on video before, watch the course of history change.
The noisy commemoration, celebrated by the Germans in 1993, reached a peak. It was only a question of reconciliation between the adversaries of yesterday and reciprocal pardon. Very laudable intentions which perhaps conceal a memory problem. And if, to too much want to turn the page, the Germans did not come to lose their memories? If history, covered by noise, became mute? If the faults were changed into "details"? The grandchildren of the combatants react in front of the camera to the evocation of these questions and to the spectacle of the vast market of commemorations.
