Red Square Stalingrad (View 1)
One of the biggest challenges the production faced was finding spaces large enough to build the huge sets. Production designer Wolf Kroeger, together with director Jean-Jacques Annaud and producer John D. Schofield, began a massive country-by-country search that took in Russia, Romania, Belarus, Lithuania, Poland, Hungary, the Czech Republic and England before they settled on eastern Germany. The toppled statue is a recreated bust of Josef Stalin.
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