Aside two facts as Gregory Peck's debut and over the direction of the master Jacques Tourneau this one caught shamefully in mass grave of the ultra-nationalism told by the winner, thus the writers can handle the facts at their whim, Hollywood made this picture in twilight the war in 1944, knowing in advance the allied will win the war, the story took place in 1941 when the Nazi forces and the feared powerful German war machine invades the URSS in order got the supplies minerals and oil plenty in that ground, nonetheless a fast planned campaign becomes a nightmare when reach the "Gen Cold'.
In that side were the dreadful Communist system who killed 5 millions of their fellow-countrymen in shortest years, the butcher comrade Stalin was in power, don't forget that, those humble peasants that became a guerrilla were the same people that crushed those 5 millions twenty years before, in fact the URSS's resistance really happened there as appears on movie, all those train sabotage is real, Russians on rustic weapon against the blinded advanced tanks also is reliable, however a teenager plead for glorious death has a great distance of reality, nobody dying singing as displayed in the story.
Anyway a cheap propaganda aiming for fooled the unwary nationalist, today Russia is the enemy, in fact I don't hear any movie from Hollywood praising their past allied nowadays, the things happens according the circumstances likewise in 1944, aftermaths they hate each other, the ballet dancer Nina (Tamara Toumanova) appears on picture as opposite the hero Vladimir (Gregory Peck) a surreal sexy night both already were in love, well we have to stand such ludicrous thing.
Moreover the gorgeous blonde Yelena is prettier than Nina undoubtedly, the drunkard Sasha (Alan Reed) and his opponent Fedor (Hugo Hass) are interesting Russian characters in fine performance, the poet Semyon (Lowell Gilmore) is another highlight quoting some poems enhancing the narrative, let it see just for Gregory Peck, Jack Tourneau and colorful character cited above.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: TV / Rating: 6.
In that side were the dreadful Communist system who killed 5 millions of their fellow-countrymen in shortest years, the butcher comrade Stalin was in power, don't forget that, those humble peasants that became a guerrilla were the same people that crushed those 5 millions twenty years before, in fact the URSS's resistance really happened there as appears on movie, all those train sabotage is real, Russians on rustic weapon against the blinded advanced tanks also is reliable, however a teenager plead for glorious death has a great distance of reality, nobody dying singing as displayed in the story.
Anyway a cheap propaganda aiming for fooled the unwary nationalist, today Russia is the enemy, in fact I don't hear any movie from Hollywood praising their past allied nowadays, the things happens according the circumstances likewise in 1944, aftermaths they hate each other, the ballet dancer Nina (Tamara Toumanova) appears on picture as opposite the hero Vladimir (Gregory Peck) a surreal sexy night both already were in love, well we have to stand such ludicrous thing.
Moreover the gorgeous blonde Yelena is prettier than Nina undoubtedly, the drunkard Sasha (Alan Reed) and his opponent Fedor (Hugo Hass) are interesting Russian characters in fine performance, the poet Semyon (Lowell Gilmore) is another highlight quoting some poems enhancing the narrative, let it see just for Gregory Peck, Jack Tourneau and colorful character cited above.
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First watch: 2023 / How many: 1 / Source: TV / Rating: 6.