| Rating: | ★★★★ |
| Category: | Movies |
| Genre: | Drama |
Germany, 1942. The Hitler regime is at the peak of its political and military power. Seventeen-year-old Friedrich Weimer, from the Berlin working-class district of Wedding, is a gifted boxer. Thanks to his talent, he receives an offer to study at an elite National-Political School, the NAPOLA of Allenstein, which trains the future leaders of the German Reich. Friedrich sees this as the chance of a lifetime to free himself from the restrictions of his class and enrolls in the school, which is located in an old castle, against the will of his parents. There, in a disconcerting world dominated by harsh Nazi discipline, he experiences both fierce rivalry and unexpected camaraderie - until a barbarous raid against escaped prisoners of war and his growing friendship with the quiet and sensitive Albrecht Stein, the son of a high-ranking official, force him to make an important decision, one that will also mark the end of his youth.
Director Dennis Gansel has transformed his award-winning screenplay (German Film Award 2003 for Best Unproduced Script), co-authored with Maggie Peren, into the gripping, nuanced portrait of a friendship between two young men caught in the barbaric mechanisms of the Nazi system.
Taken from http://www.german-cinema.de/archive/film_view.php?film_id=1061
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Good film, even though the genre has been done through and through. I didn't enjoy the film as much, but would recommend this to all pre-enlistment Singaporean boys. :p
Seriously, a loss of boyhood innocence and humanity, as the lead characters are forced to confront the brutalities of war.
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