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Title: A major disappointment!
Review: This simply isn't a very good movie. Although a well-intended, anti-war, anti-Nazi movie, it is far from mesmerizing or extraordinary. First, the look of the film is grainy, dark, poor sound, and is not particuarly well-edited, with choppy scenes and missing continuity. The characters are stale--the villains are stereotypically evil, inhuman Germans, being resisted by noble, people of the earth Russians. The acting is over the top, although Alexei Kraavchenko, as the youth through whose eyes the movie is played out, is good (he is the only reason for the one star). There isn't a single idea in the movie that hasn't been better explicated in other movies, and nothing original to recommend it. Yes, war is bad and it is necessary to try to retain one's humanity in the face of war. This movie isn't engaging enough to even sustain this message. Sorry, this is one to miss.
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