Solidly made and well-observed Romanian film about a young boy caught up in the second world war, first as trumpeter in a marching band, then at the front. Excellent black and white photography, capturing nuance and realistic details, though there often feel like clumsy gaps in the narrative that may have been intentional but don't really come off.
The basic premise, of a child's-eye view of war, has been done too many times in other films like "The Tin Drum", "The Bridge" (1959), "Come and See" and even "Jojo Rabbit" to really feel fresh and insightful, or add up to anything original and memorable, but it's a well-made film in most departments all the same.
Too Little for Such a Big War
1970 [ROMANIAN]
Drama / War
Plot summary
A young boy becomes callous to the deaths and battles that rage on during World War II. He and his friends follow a peasant soldier of a Rumanian troop as they march to join the Russians in fighting the Nazis. He watches as one of his friends dies after destroying a German machine gun nest. He is slapped by a Rumanian soldier who is livid over the boy's nonchalance of his friend's death. He becomes a mascot of the advancing unit as they proceed to a castle in Czechoslovakia. When the men dress in armor for a group picture, they are killed by the Nazis. The boy returns to find the men have been wiped out and he is taken prisoner by a German soldier. The Nazi falls victim to marauding peasants seeking revenge. They rescue the young warrior and escort him back to his home in Rumania.
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August 29, 2023 at 03:47 AM