Quote Originally Posted by starrysky
Oh I agree about the poor acting. Petrenko - as hansome as he is - didn't seem to have done all that much on this movie - though perhaps that's just the role.
Oh, come on, the role was a great scope for showing good acting! An actor could only dream about such a profound role. Especially a Russian actor, I mean how much this war means for us, even nowadays.

And the girl was, frankly, horrible (in terms of acting, natuarally).
To be honest, I don't remember any girl there.

But for me there are three things that redeem the flaws of this film: 1) the beautiful music, 2) the heart-rending end - I cried my eyes out - when he keeps saying "Земля, земля, я звезда" and Vorobyshek dies, and then she answers, and the Germans are creeping nearer... and at the very end when the soldiers are shown going to Poland or somewhere and it's said that only 1 in a 100 of them is going to come back... it's awful... 3) some of the other guys played very well - for example, Анатолий Гущин, who played рядовой Быков - there's a moment when they're nearing his native village and he sees that it was burnt and some people were hanged - there's just such a look on his face - indescribably sad. I'd give him a prize for just that one look.
Well, to me, a film is good only if everything is good in it, not only one or two episodes. As for other actors' acting, I don't remember it well, but I'm sure if there was anything extraordinary, I wouldn't have forgotten it. I remember that the film in general left me cold, but yes, the last scene touched me.

I did hate it when they had to kill the first German they captured. Poor guy.
The one from the hospital? I dimly remember it, and I liked this episode. I don't mean I liked that they killed him. It was awful.