Wouldn't hurt to understand politics

Rating: 1/10 (9 March 2011)

It is most interesting that just about everybody takes this movie as a romance. There is nothing further from the truth. It was and is a propaganda film.
What is the story? Austrian girls are so naive, just sing in the mountains. It was easy to trick her into Nazism! Anybody noticed that the Austrian captain hates the Germans? He is 'The Lovable One' associated with all Austrians. And the highly emotional scene in the open-theatre when they escape ... don't you just feel for poor Austrians, they were tricked by the Nazis! The crowd just leans what the Nazis are doing! They go 'wow'! Their breath is broken! They didn't know nothing! They must be innocent! Austrians really are not so bad people - look, they are mostly like us! May be it's not true what they say about them.
But yes, it is true. They were heavily Nazis even after the war. It was only in the mid 50s when they started to change. In the 60s the western politicians wanted to look at them as a bridge between the West and the East. And voilÃ ! You had to accept them as part of the western world. You had to quickly forget you fought them in two world-wars, millions of you children bled to death to stop their absolutism! To please you and to satisfy your hatred the Germans are thrown into the lion's cage. Hate Them! They are evil!! Even if it is clear today that they didn't cause WWII. You want to live in a black-n-white world, we are good, they are bad, simple as that. And this movie plays on that.
It is a well made propaganda film, far beyond anything Adolf could dream up. Psychology at best, no question about it. Works on you even today. Directing, performance, camera-work, everything beautifully done! A pearl of movie making. Its just that it's not a romance ...
Greetings to the movie-lovers. You really can't see, this is a propaganda film?