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Great Subject, maybe the greatest on this planet, drives you to great expectations, but at the end leaves you with great disappointment. I have personally been in some of the locations like Baikal, Arctic Ocean, Sweden, Canadian North Pacific, Great Lakes including Niagara Falls. I didn't have even a fraction of feelings I had compared to what was when I first been there.

I have seen this movie in 1966, when I was still a student in the third class of high school and was preparing for the university. All I knew about the Second World War were the stories of great allied heroes saving the world from merciless German "beasts" who have no human feelings at all! This movie has changed my entire point of view and my feelings towards the people of the "enemy". From that moment on, I have learned to respect the people as humans with feelings, I hated ideologies which spoil the human values in people. By any standards, it deserves to be classified as one of the best war movies ever made. Considering the difficulties and limitations and shortages he faced during the making of this film, Bernhard Wicki, according to my opinion, has made the impossible.