15 Mar 2019
The Resistance Fighter
Film about the lead up to the Polish uprising against German occupation at the end of the Second World War.
Once More Unto the Breach
July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)
Top Billed Cast
Iana Kichenko Narrator (voice)
Italo Balbo Self (archive footage)
Ewald von Kleist Self (archive footage)
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