All quiet on the eastern front.

OK, that's perhaps a bit unfair, but comparison with the earlier, better known (film and book) has some validity. Young people are stirred into joining the army for patriotic reasons, to find war is hellish.. some die, some learn that maybe the real enemy is not the guys a few yards away who happen to wear different uniforms...
I was a little disappointed by this, having finally found it lost in (UK's) Film $ TV listings recently. Having 'survived' just about all the better known Soviet propaganda films from 'Battleship', via October, Earth, Strike, Arsenal, St. Petersburg etc etc, and found them .. rather worthy, but heavy going and a bit predictable, I thought I had progressed and discovered that not EVERY USSSR film from this era had to have grim Cossacks cutting down women & Children, and fat smug factory owners mistreating workers. I found comedies, love stories.. and even the bizarre Sci-Fi 'Alita, Queen of Mars'. So to find, in the first few moments, yet another set of the Tsar's horsemen sabreing civilians gave me a 'Oh not again' feeling.
That said, it did pick up a bit, but I was drifting off by the end..

few visible scars