Last Russian movie about WWII

[pithorr]

Are there any old Soviet movies with a similar tone to Come and See, but focusing more on the combat aspect as opposed to life behind the lines?

Plenty of them.
For instance: Ballad of a Soldier, They Fought for Their Country, Battle of Moscow, The Dawns Here Are Quiet (my favourite one) and most epic war movie ever: Liberation series.
I may also recommend (commie) Polish ones: Direction Berlin and Last Days.

 

[Nykyus]

The current Russian films are inferior, shot in the USSR. This is some kind of curse.
Slightly good films, but still inferior to the Soviet ones, the films are the series "Trotsky" and the series "Druzina"

 

[DukeDayve]

That Russian Stalingrad one put me off Russian WW2 movies for life... with soldiers fully engulfed in flames but still charging and engaging in melee.

In fact... thinking about it now... there's no point watching WW2 films anymore. We already had the best ones (Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, Der Untergang, Das Boot) and all the recent ones have been terrible.

Like that Fury one, with its Star War blaster battles, the nonsensical tank battle where a Tiger tank doesn't shoot the lead tank, then gives up its good position so that the Shermans can surround it. Bleh. Crap.

 

[Kupr]

Fascinating.

I will never understand the importance that the soviets felt in persecuting their own soldiers for so many years after the war though...

You realy have to work hard to find a decent noble knight from Waffen SS.Still we have one Heintz Harmel the commander of 10th SS-Panzer Div. Frundsberg. Probably the only SS div. who did not commit any known war-crimes in ww-2. In the year 1984 Harmel got an honor medal from the french town Bayex for the good treatment of pows and the French inhabitans during the war.Eaven Brittish and American veterans have officiell said that the treatment of pows and the respekt for wounded soldiers was very good.

My paternal grandfather was taken POW in November 1943 in Belarus (as 17 years wounded soldier). Officially Red Army sent paper to his mother as KIA .
According his words German killed Jews, Comissars and wounded ones from POWs right after action. He was wounded in leg, but German officer saw cross in his neck, left him alive and ordered Russian POWs to take my wounded grandfather.

He was in concentration camp in Poland. After war he returned in own village in Bryansk area. First years he several times was requested in military comissariat for reports about captivity. Our relative from neighbour vilage (Collective farm chairman) decided to end it and "to decide question".

In the 90s my granfather did millitary pension and military officers were amazed that he was noted as killed in action in their papers.

 

[Kupr]

Are there any old Soviet movies with a similar tone to Come and See, but focusing more on the combat aspect as opposed to life behind the lines?

Battalions ask for fire
The movie was done by former solgiers of WWII. It is like they saw war...

By the end of work, actors said... we almost tired to fight...

Story of movie like during going operation military plan was changed and several battalions were left without any support (artillery, aviation and reserves)

 

[Kupr]

Are there any old Soviet movies with a similar tone to Come and See, but focusing more on the combat aspect as opposed to life behind the lines?

Most cult movie abour officers of Red Army from the beginning of Soviet republic.

"Officers" with english subtitles:

Situation from movie was monumented near main buildings of Defence Ministry of Russia: