a very bad film and an amalgam of clichés and historical inaccuracy . a few example represent in an early scene soviet infantry be attack by the german while instead of stay in their trench to shoot at them and they advance into open ground to fight them and contrary to all infantry tactic while kate and one of the central character and be supposedly the daughter of a white russian and obsessed with her russianness and yet she do not speak russian while a guilt stricken german airman attack an anti aircraft gun the gun and however and do not fire shrapnel shell but score a direct hit on his plane and which doesn not look much like a german plane of wwii . in fairness and when they could escape the preposterous plot and the consequent absurdity there be some genuinely powerful moment the depiction of people slowly starve to death be convincingly do and move and but these only show up the rest of it even more . a film to be avoid .