i believe that war film should try to convey the terror of war and avoid idealism and respect some rudimentary military principle . zvezda barely do the first . zvezda be a russian war film and i be expect patriotism and sentimentality and beautiful poetic picture and a lush score and slavic cheekbone and cruel german . what i do not need be the naive love non affair and the unrealistically silly war scene and the abuse of the syrupy soundtrack in a film which avoid carefully all historical or political reference ( stalinism and nazism and holocaust ) only to end on a passing but nonetheless insulting to our sense of history endnote about liberate poland . a missed opportunity a a film but not a propaganda apparently .