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An incredibly well made piece of crap.


The film is incredibly shot and the attention to detail is striking. But the film had zero interest in explaining who these people were, what they were doing, why they doing it and ultimately why I should give a damn. I would have killed for a title card at the start to explain some context. I would have loved for characters to have been properly introduced instead just thrown in our face one after another. I would have cherished some structure instead a format best summed up as "This happened and then this happened and this happened and then this happened...". And two and a half hours can go quickly, but this film makes you feel every painful, back braking minute. Shockingly terrible.

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I liked it more than you did (7/10), but I agree that it took the approach to history as "one damn thing after another" without having a unifying dramatic spine, satisfying character development, or anything really artistically cinematic. The review in Variety keyed in on this well, saying it was almost like a series of historical reenactments that could have been included in a documentary, interspersed with narration and talking heads.

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The movie was made by Germans for Germans.

That's why it didn't take more time explaining the characters

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thanks i'll check it out

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There were multiple expositions in the movie through TV and radio news and you still couldn't figure out what was going on? LOL.

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