One of many stories which should be told more often

Rating: Null/10 (25 May 2011)

I find it quite telling about the zeitgeist of Hollywood (and the entertainment industry as a whole) when, almost seventy years after its destruction, we're still flooded with fictional horror stories about the National Socialist boogeyman, while films involving red dictators slaughtering massive numbers of their own people measure in the single digits.
Think about it: How many films have you seen that display Stalin in a realistic light? Mao? Probably even fewer. Castro's Cuba? It's even worse there: Don't even get me started about the insipid Che Guevara fanboy/fangirlism. Kudos to Joffé and Robinson for injecting reality into the false, often murderous promises of communism.