Rarely do they keep us totally locked out of the commander’s map room, the bunker where the top brass exposit backstory, outline goals, or lay out geography for the viewer.

The practical effects in the makeup look excellent with fantastic wrinkles, age marks, dirt, and bloody bits of human body parts strewn about. While fleeing back into the woods with Flyora, Glasha momentarily glimpses a heap of bodies, Flyora’s family and neighbors, piled on the edge of the village where tendrils of smoke still waft from their chimneys. Background score: Score is more about sound effects while using basic instruments such as the harmonica.

Fine object-detail really dives off of the screen in every shot, from fine hairs and wrinkles found in the numerous close-ups throughout the film, to the trees, vegetation, and debris presented in longer shots.

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The level of range between the highs and lows is also impressive, and the more action-packed sequences, involving explosions and gunfire, are mixed louder but they never come off harsh and do sound clean and natural, delivering incredible fidelity. The film, whose original title was Kill Hitler, takes as its heart-shattering climax a hallucinatory montage of documentary footage that imagines a world without the Nazi leader. Filmmaker Viktor Dashuk made a five-part documentary series that showcases the atrocities and horrors that were experienced by the Belarusian people during the Holocaust. Predictably, it can be very intense, but not because there is a great deal of cinematic drama in the progression of the action. The film has a drearier look and colours can be muted, though they seem to take more of a teal-like tone with this presentation, and I don’t doubt this is how the film is supposed to look.