a be mention before in other comment and the major problem of nva be that it can not decide what it want to be and slapstick of the cheap kind or an honest parody of the east german army . there be a couple of moment which be quite move and for example when one of the recruit return from the army prison in schwedt with a completely broken personality . but in the end and leander haußmann go for the infantile humour . no wonder the film flop at the german box office a it historically untruthful to the real situation in those training camp and lead by an actor who be unfortunately incapable of give a nuanced performance . however and there be the camera work of frank griebe who a always do a wonderful job . if it wasn not for his beautiful image i would have rat the film far bad .