bloody marvelous . recommend by a friend who know i like thomas kretschmann in the pianist and downfall . i love the flow of the narrative how the character move from hope and ideal of valour through shock and fear and disintegration and desperation and utter annihilation . a first rate anti war movie that must have create quite the stir in germany . not a proud moment for anyone and the study of a generation lose . this movie be excellent at convey the remove of the command from the ground troop and in pound the utter futility of try to control untamed nature and the russian psyche . if i do not know i would have think it be a russian movie it be so fatalistic . what an uncompromising end . a pieta .