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I have this film on video, taped from BBC2, which I assume is the full version, I watch it at least annually, and every time time I watch it I marvel at it - to think that this film was actually made DURING the Second World War. The lush colour and look of the production belies this, but apart from that I still can't believe that they got away with the portrayal of the Germans, and of the Theo Kratschmar-Schuldorff character, given that we were actually AT WAR with them at the time. The film makers were able to say, at the time, 'It's the Nazis, not the German people, who are the enemy'. What a courageous statement and it speaks volumes for Britain that they were able to do it. Put it this way: I don't recall any sympathetic treatment of Argentinians in the media during the Falklands...
score 10/10
bayster912 14 January 2007
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