Totally believable + very chilling.
It`s a terrible shame that this unique piece of work is largely unknown(even in the U.K.)although hopefully the recent r2 dvd release will intrigue people.
The very fact that it was made without the backing of a major studio & co-directed by a couple of teenagers is remakable in itself.The dvd booklet states that no stock footage was used,most of the peolple involved were not actors and all the equipment was WW2 genuine.
The film is told through the eyes of an Irish nurse who finds she has to join a fascist organization in order to carry on her profession, which brings her into contact & conflict with the Partisans & the collaborators.She has to make a choice:Does she acquiesce or resist?What would you do?Both points of view are explored intelligently & plausibly with the need to resist the invader tempered with the need to get the country back on it`s feet again.Fascism is largely indoctrinated via the organisation: "Immediate Action" although there are also British S.S. units ,some of which are fighting on the Eastern front.We learn that most German troops are fighting in the East but we see some fascinating footage of them relaxing in London:marching past Big Ben & the Houses of Parliament, fraternising with the local ladies & riding on a red London bus.These chilling images really make you believe "It Happened Here."