This is an excellent film. The men depicted here are my uncles, my godfathers, and many other young German men who never returned home. Never mind the rightness or the wrongness of the war, the effect of this film is powerful. The frozen faces of the men ground into the Russian soil by tanks are the same faces of those in my family albums. This is the counterpart to the great generation. They were real people with real hopes, ideals, and illusions. This movie is best seen in German with English subtitles. Unfortunately many a nuance is lost in translation.