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Italiani brava gente (1964)
A touching antiwar movie, showing everyday people swept away without any reason in that fateful Russian winter.
14 July 2007 - 2 out of 5 users found this review helpful.
I know from my family history how accurate and painful this movie is. It shows "Italiano brava gente" which means "italian good people" as the Russians called the Italians .It is an antiwar movie worth watching and thinking about. It is a portrait and reminder of the brutality of the German allies who abandoned an entire army in the most frigid winter Russia had known in a long time. It is a reminder that the complacency of a people allowed a dictator, Mussolini, to send about 120,000 soldiers to Russia without winter clothes and to commit many other crimes. It is a reminder that war is a horrible thing, albeit sometimes just, but never right.
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