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Once More Unto the Breach (2019)

Once More Unto the Breach (2019)

Drama History War
Release Date: 2019, October 10
Directors: Michele Manzolini, Federico Ferrone
Countries: Italy
Production: Kiné, Istituto Luce Cinecittà, Home Movies, RAI
Cast: Iana Kichenko, Italo Balbo, Ewald von Kleist

Overview:

July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)

Keywords:

world war ii docudrama semi-fiction semi-documentary experimental narrative