In Stille gefangen

The issue with this movie is that since war movies have been filmed for years now, this one hasn’t managed to come up with anything new. On the other hand, it tells a true life story. And those should never be forgotten. Especially because – although they’re very similar – they’re each very distinctive; not only the environments, also the individual characters that live their lives. The upside is especially the fact that it was shot in the Czech Republic and there’s a few Czech actors. That has outweighed the downsides, in my opinion, even though there’s lots of them. The most important one being that the director didn’t manage the movie well and it sometimes feels very B-grade. However, the environments and the apparent efforts of the Czech colleagues to fit in as much war atmosphere as possible pushed my rating one grade higher, because I felt like some aspects of the movie were bordering with perfection and it was apparent that they tried hard with certain things. (11.07.2016)