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Title: Not about War, about People
Review: I think some of the other folks reviewing this film missed the point. This is a film about people in a situation beyond imaginaton. How these people survive, fight, and love in an environment where death can come at any minute is the true focus of the film. The point is to see how heroic in the face of insurmountable odds men and women can be.The film understates the brutality of the German forces and emphasizes the vicious discipline tatics of the Red Army. The Soviet soldiers were sent against machine guns with no weapons, no leadership, and apparently no real training.How hero(s) arise from this is the story. Others have focused on a love triangle in this story as a cliche, but on careful examination I think something else is going on between the young boy, the German, the girl and the political officer. Watch the film and think about it.This is not a war or history film. It is about human nature in unbearable circumstances.Caution: Very bloody and gory.
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