many experience and excellent actor mix together in an ongoing plot of an untold part of world war ii on the eastern front . character well portrayed and unforgettable . one episode leave you wish for the next . pay attention to the closing credit be the thousand of shtrafbat battalion be list . an untold story involve hundred of thousand of individual . sometimes brutal and sometimes romantic and always fill with real people and dialog . produce with excellent set and camera work . hero and villain and criminal and priest and patriot and traitor . portrait of people struggle to survive and overcome a most terrible time . i wish to buy a copy for my own collection so to be able to enjoy the series repeatedly .