Excellent antiwar movie, the simple but continually gripping story of a German nurse (Maria Schell, in her best role), captured by Serbian partisans and put to use saving the lives of their soldiers, while becoming increasingly torn as to which side she should be on.
This tale of one kindhearted but powerless person trying to do the right thing in the midst of much greater carnage and insanity could easily have turned out just another generic, sappy, spoon-feeding wartime romantic melodrama, but by keeping each moment and character small, heartfelt and real, it unostentatiously rises above that fate and ends up a minor classic. Well worth checking out if you get the chance.
This tale of one kindhearted but powerless person trying to do the right thing in the midst of much greater carnage and insanity could easily have turned out just another generic, sappy, spoon-feeding wartime romantic melodrama, but by keeping each moment and character small, heartfelt and real, it unostentatiously rises above that fate and ends up a minor classic. Well worth checking out if you get the chance.