The film is good and "wellreseived" in Russia. But it gives you a kind of wrong impression about russians (and soviets) - I can not say about germans. Russians do not love "heroic" people. A classik russian hero is an unpretentious person, without any visible self advertisment.
The block...
As Zaitsev has been told König (Konings according to Zaitsev) was a head of sniper school in Berlin. One german prizoner told that Konings arrived by aircraft with a task to kill Zaitsev. And in fact a very good sniper appeared on the german side that time. That sniper destroyed a scope of the...