Nice Movie But Not Remotely Similar To "The Promise"

Rating: 7/10 (11 November 2017)

It was a nice movie and well acted, but if one is looking for the Turkish Government's response to the movie, "The Promise", this movie doesn't come even close to countering the cruelty and savagery of the Turkish Ottomans toward the Armenian People. In fact, very little of the film has anything to do with the Armenian People. It has much more to do with the relationship between the Turkish government and the Christian Red Cross mission.
The movie does attempt to confuse and mitigate history by hinting that SOME Armenians may have joined with invading Russians during WWI to overthrow the Ottoman Empire. But this was well after the Ottomans had already begun the genocide of the Armenian People, so it was only natural that some might have seen the Russians as their liberators.
The movie goes out of its way to present the Muslim Lieutenant as the "good guy" in the film, but I suppose that would be normal being that he was the protagonist in the film. It only ascribes cruelty and genocide to a mere handful of possible renegade Turkish troops rather than government-sanctioned atrocities, as depicted in "The Promise".
The movie was very interesting and well done. But it is hardly the "antidote" to "The Promise".