A very disturbing war film worth seeing.

Rating: 9/10 (19 May 2002)

This is a real war film. It is not pretty. It is not a movie such as I've ever seen and I cannot say that I enjoyed it, but non the less it is a film that should be watched for anyone interested in what man is capable of. It should be seen so as to know why we must control ourselves to be as morally aware as possible and to try to get along with each other so as not to repeat the same patterns of history again and again. The film is very interesting in the way it was made, it is so unconventional that it is hard to relate to it. It actually gave me the feeling that I was a witness to an event that was absolutely intolerable and despicable. Watching this film was like being there yet your mind cannot take the pain and torture so it becomes a dreamy nightmare that one cannot escape from until wakened by the live reversing footage of Hitler's Europe imploding at the end of the film. Quite a work of art. This film should not be seen by the faint or those that try to escape trying to understand human depravity at its best.