Der Arzt von Stalingrad

The movie is quite captivating and reminds me of similar older black and white dramas, such as Der Blaue Engel. The characters are beliavable, situations are realistic. In conversations, good points are made, as POWs are wondering how their lives came to such precarious end. The movie is quite dynamic, does not let you borre at all. Judging from real life conversations between people who witnessed WW2, sentiments are genuine. People feel forced to mistreat each other as cruel social machinery leaves them no choice. Jokingly, doctor tells a fellow prisoner that every 25 years something happens and you end up in situations like that. Ultimately, many more perils and dilemmas strike people. Love, moral obligations, and so on add to the complicated fabric of life... Somehow this film if more visceral, perhaps because it is chronologically closer to that war, and people in it and who worked on it expressed what they saw and felt. The war ended a little over 10 years after this film was made. I highly recommend it.