"...a world that no longer exists..."

Rating: 10/10 (2 September 2001)

... as a previous commentator noted - and it's a good thing it doesn't. This film is instructive in that it describes the tenseness of a world possibly about to lose its freedom to implacable conquerers. This theme is as old as Athens and Sparta, which (thanks to public education) is just as unknown a story for many. Against that background is a man (Rick) with a choice to make. Few films get both the setting AND the foreground story right. A milestone in film art.