This excellent movie follows the Czechoslovakian soldiers who fought with the Allies in the Desert War during World War 2. Do not expect a glorification of the entire Tobruk battle. This is the story of a particular group, and what they experienced. This is an updating of the Red Badge of Courage by Stephen Crane - a story based on the realization by a young man of exactly what war is.
The young man's ideas of honor and the fight for a moral imperative are destroyed by the horrors of the war. This story brings home exactly what troops went through in those battles.
We watched with subtitles, but even without knowing the language, the actors brought the meaning through the language barrier.
Special effects are amazing. There is full frontal nudity during a shower scene, and horrific - but not out of place - gore.
