horrific but not as awful as the reality that happened

Rating: 4/10 (11 May 2018)

This is based on actual events that happened on the Eastern Front in WW2. The Nazi deeds were monstrous.The suffering of the civilians and common atrocities were done in the name of Hitlers crazy ideology. Ethnic cleansing and industrialized murder were commonplace. This is based on the brutal reality that caused casualties on this front of more than 30 million . Mans depravity as seen thru the eyes of a teenager. A coming of age movie set in an apocalyptic time period. This movie has some Russian quirks but still rates as a monumental film.