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• Stalingrad | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £4.98   |  Saving you £8.01 (160.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  It's tempting to call the harrowing Stalingrad a World War II version of All Quiet on the Western Front, since both films take the perspective of ordinary German soldiers at ground level. Stalingrad surveys the misery of the battle of Stalingrad, the winter siege that cost the lives of almost one and a half million people--Russian defenders and German invaders alike. Not unlike Spielberg's approach to Saving Private Ryan, German director Joseph Vilsmaier rarely steps outside the action to comment on the higher purpose of the war, assuming the audience is aware of the evil of the Nazi regime. Instead, we simply follow a group of soldiers as they endure a series of gut-wrenching episodes, events that have the tang of authenticity and horror. Vilsmaier has a taste for symbolism and surreal touches, which only add to the unsettling sense of insanity this movie conjures up so well. --Robert Horton

• The Firemens Ball | Blu Ray | (12/10/2015) from £15.75   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

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• Audition / Talent Show (Konkurs) | DVD | (15/08/2005) from £11.45   |  Saving you £1.54 (13.45%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Part one cuts between rehearsals/performance by rival brass bands and the competing attraction of a cross-country motorbike race. Part Two anticipates the audition scenes in Taking Off as a throng of female singers try out for a part in a show. Though originally made as separate featurettes the two episodes form a plausible entity being so similar stylistically and thematically. The approach is documentary with some fictional elements gently interpolated - in the first the defection of two youthful trombonists in the second the lightly sketched backgrounds of two of the singers. Extremely assured for an apprentice work this displays the same mix of shrewdness and tenderness that marked all Forman's early films. But as with many East European movies of this era one suspects that a political allegory is concealed at the heart of it all.

• Gounod: Romeo et Juliette -- film version | DVD | (04/02/2003) from £19.18   |  Saving you £5.81 (30.29%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Shakespeare's lovers never looked and sounded so good as in this romantic new film adaptation of Charles Gounod's beloved opera starring one of classical music's most popular and successful duos Roberto Alagna and Angela Gheorghiu. A spectacular medieval castle and its surrounding countryside provide the setting for this timeless tale of warring families and star-crossed lovers. Conductor Anton Guadagno leads the Czech Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra through the opera's best-loved arias and duets in this fresh interpretation of Gounod's masterwork.

• Live 8 - Roma | DVD | (07/11/2005) from £24.28   |  Saving you £-4.29 (-21.50%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The best artists on the planet the biggest audience ever! The Rome concert from the Live 8 simultaneous event that took place around the world on July 2nd 2005. Tracklist: 1. Intro 2. Zucchero - Everybody's gotta learn some time 3. Zucchero - Overdose d'amore 4. Zucchero - Diavolo in Me 5. Planet Funk - Ultraviolet Days 6. Planet Funk - Stop Me 7. Negrita - Rotolando verso sud 8. Negrita - Cambio 9. Max Pezzali - Come mai 10. Max Pezzali - Le dura legge del goal 1