Exciting suspense, light, it is true, without reaching the thriller for at least the first 40 minutes, but after that, hectic. Several ingredients season this excellent war drama in a strange and peculiar way, the twins Igor and Serafin on the side of the partisans "Death to the enemy" is one of them and, of course, the assault on the Nazi jeep of Mr Dvigubsky and officer Weising Kidnapping Dvigubsky to get information from the Germans is one thing, impersonating the Hauptsturmfuhrer to visit the nefarious Koester at Blue Bay Villa was quite another: the undercover partisan nearly got himself discovered despite speaking perfect German, by quoting a Russian proverb, very similar to the one in Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds for counting with the wrong finger; and not to mention the box of cigars gift-delivery from Von Lemm in which he was almost betrayed by the devious Dvigubsky. When Dvigubsky finally manages to deliver a written paper to the other officer, the bike race scene turns torturous with the unread missive in the Nazi's underpants while the partisan posing as Weising deals with Koester's safe. Who will take advantage of the cigars as a gift? Sokolov in the safe while the twins ambush the German sentry guards on the run. I died laughing (poof, I shouldn't, right) when all the cyclists collapse when the track signage is sabotaged in the race, but even more, when in a desperate act the idiot Dvigubsky insults and provokes a duel a Nazi officer to explain to him that Weising is an impostor, alone in the compound. And it only served to kill the Major with a shot.
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