The story behind this movie is the slaughter of.many hundreds (thousands?) of Slovenians at the end of WW2, without doubt a war crime. Unfortunately the film maker does not have the skills to take on this enormous task.

A few of the actors manage to make their characters almost believable, but they are not helped by a stilted script. Unfortunately, some of the others are embarrassingly bad. The staging is ok in places, in others it is clumsy. Editing is fair, though old fashioned. The cameras are either not very good, or badly used (see constant over-exposures).

The score is fine.

I stuck with this because the synopsis indicated it had an important story to tell. And the synopsis was right. Maybe someone else will do it justice.

Five stars for the underlying story.

A disappointment.

Douglas G. Griffin (The Colonel) is an American actor and makes no attempt to pretend to be English in this film. He's utterly unconvincing as a British Colonel. What were they thinking?

A wonderful gentle tale about a elderly retired British officer reflecting on his experiences in WWII based on little know but actual horrific events that occurred just after the German surrender.