In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director’s consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power. |
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Ratings: | IMDB: 7.7/10 | |
Released: | January 14, 1965 | |
Runtime: | 108 min | |
Genres: | Drama War | |
Companies: | MAFILM 4. Játékfilmstúdió | |
Cast: | Sergey Nikonenko András Kozák Béla Barsi Jurij Bodovszkij | |
Crew: | Miklós Jancsó Gyula Hernádi Imre Vadász | |
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