Sergei Bondarchuk
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The director, however, has grandiosity coursing through his veins; he’s the son of the great Sergei Bondarchuk, who starred in and directed the magnificent 1966 Soviet War and Peace, which ran seven hours and is still the most expensive film ever made — so expensive that it didn’t technically have a price tag.
By the way, "Stalingrad" director Fedor Bondarchuk is the son of Sergei Bondarchuk , whose Battle of Borodino in "War and Peace" (1967), set during the Napoleonic wars, is still considered one of the greatest battle re-creations in cinema history.
But Bondarchuk, son of Sergei Bondarchuk (director of the 1967 “War and Peace”), wants to be a timeless mythmaker as well as a visual war poet.
It is too bad that Bondarchuk, an actor turned director whose father, Sergei Bondarchuk, directed the monumental, Oscar-winning War and Peace (1966), gave in to the idea that more is more, as Stalingrad would have benefitted from a more subdued and realistic visual approach that merges the film’s physical violence with its emotional passion.