giorgino be a long and excruciate journey from bad to worse in the life of protagonist after whom the movie be name . young demobilize and gas poison first world war lieutenant of very delicate health and who previously be a doctor in an orphanage for child with some mental deprivation and go in a search of their new location and find much more than he ever intend to and quite of a different nature . depressive atmosphere of ultimate despair and where the insane one be much less horrible than the sane and where the madness be a kind of poetry and will hold you hypnotize from the very first frame of this film to the last . and all the beauty represent beauty of the winter and mountain and beauty of snowy landscape and wild wood and i do not even know how all the sorrow and sadness of last day of war could be make so beautiful .