 Like all of the other films in the genre, "The Battle of Stalingrad" consists mainly of battle scenes and staff meetings, reconstructing the campaign from the point of view of the soldiers and the generals, in a heroic manner fitting the state's ideology.The movie won the Crystal Globe in the 1949 Karlovy Vary Film Festival.Aleksei Dikiy, who portrayed Stalin, received the 1949 Gottwaldov Film Festival's prize, and director Vladimir Petrov won the Czechoslovak Workers' Film Festival Best Director Award.