Outstanding period piece

Rating: 9/10 (12 June 2003)

This is quite possibly one of the finest cinematic accomplishments to date anywhere.
The viewer is taken on an emotional journey with the leading character that left me, at the end of the movie, quite drained. During the movie I cried, I was shocked, I laughed, I cheered and I cried again.
This movie answered a lot of questions that had been weighing on my mind since childhood all those decades ago.
Thank you Roman, you did a good thing.