Unbelievable twaddle!

Rating: 1/10 (30 December 2012)

I love factual war-time movies - the Pianist for example Is a work of genius - but oh dear, this TV movie Is a weepy for the girls (perhaps?) at very best! Everything looks fake, from the uniforms(which look like fancy dress)to the 'extermination camp' which Is totally inaccurate. As for the storyline - come on,have you ever seen anything so ludicrous and unbelievable? It does'n't take a Historian to know that concentration camps were guarded at all points 24-hours a day and that no-one was allowed within several meters of the fence - on BOTH sides! Furthermore,the camp on the film - an 'extermination' camp as opposed to a 'normal' concentration camp - would have been especially heavily guarded, as the Nazis wanted the systematic killing of Jews to be kept from the public. ALL such camps had a Double-layered fence with a three-meter 'no-mans land' In- between, a far cry from the single,flimsy fence through which,It seems,inmates can pop In-and-out of at will(but apparently choose not to do so!). We are left to believe,then,that In THIS camp, people break In but DON'T break out!! And a little boy at that,who goes In and out seemingly at will!(The naivety of the two boys borders on idiocy,to boot!) I mean,come on - the makers weren't being serious,were they? Add to this debacle the simple fact that In reality all external fences In the camps were ELECTRIFIED and what we have here Is a load of historically inaccurate twaddle - and that's putting It very mildly - with a storyline which would be comical were It not for the serious nature of the subject. Such sensitive matters should be dealt with In a sensitive way - not made Into some kind of ridiculous parody as this has been. An absolute Insult to those who suffered In the camps, I consider this film to be one of the stupidest of all time. Well done to the actors,though,for managing to play It straight faced! Utter Rubbish.