Prisoner camp with Franco Nero World War II is coming to an end. It is not clear when the X-hour will be when it will be over. But the result is already obvious.
We end up in a prisoner camp. The head of the camp faces a strange situation. He needs to shake everyone up, and the deliberate injustice of punishing his own enemies, even if they are innocent, seems to be the only solution to stability.
So we gradually abstract from the uniform of the officers. The main thing here is a flagrant injustice that arises only from the desire of a weak leader to assert himself.
This means that the picture thematically appears in the discourse of Kubrick’s film Paths of Glory and anticipates Yves Boisse’s painting Pants. But you can hardly consider this film interesting and significant.
I don’t understand why we are being told about Nazis. And why other significant details related to the last days of the Reich are omitted. They don’t seem to exist, and we are given too close-up only one fragment. Probably not even the most egregious in his intolerance of people.
Most of the tape rolls into a leisurely description of camp life and acquaintance with the heroes. It turns out that the writer wrote the script “about nothing”, and the director did not bother to present these moments so that they were remembered or excited. There was no intrigue. With a turtle step comes the final. There will be a furious exit from Franco Nero... But how interesting is it considering everything?
In my opinion, this tape - a strange experiment by Giuliano Montaldo - has many flaws. Even for film lovers, I would not recommend it.
3 out of 10