what a fantastic premise represent a movie about the berlin airlift . it should have it all . tragedy . suspense . comradeship . rival . berliner fraulein and tough u pilot . love and tear . what we have get and be a film with none of the above . heino ferch try to impersonate john wayne or so and but he fail miserably . he act so wooden and that at any give moment he should crack . he try to play the tough guy and instead of be a tough guy . why would bettina zimmermann character fall in love with him . cause they be throw stone in a lake . cause he bring her coal brick . the sfx be very and very well do . too much though . the hundred or so plane over berlin and look like an attack fighter formation squadron rather than an organised airlift a it actually be . interestingly enough and the white house and the kremlin and and general lucius d. clay office seem all to be one and the same dark and dusty set . notice the same drape and hang deep down the window and a if a protective shield against nuclear fallout . why be almost every scene inside dark and dusty . by the way and general lucius d. clay and come across a a small time and insecure and loose general and who doest trust in his own noble idea the airlift . he be very much the opposite . so you combine all those individual blunder and the result be a film with that build toward no passion and no suspense and no historic accuracy . sad and it start out so promising .