Taking cover behind his felled cow, Flyoria awakes in the empty field, now absolutely still, with the mangled animal corpse as his pillow.

There's nothing else like it and will stick around for days after viewing with some excellent cinematography and poetic beauty within all the violence. Over his single mother's protests, he joins the partisans, but they leave him behind in their camp when they set off to fight the Germans. The strength of the film, however, isn't in its ability to brilliantly recreate the despicable actions of the invaders and make them look authentic. Item as described and will work for my game, arrived well packaged and protected and in the new condition advertised.

Flyora and other resistance fighters must in someway envy the dead as it puts to rest the harmful world around them, even so much that they try and bury their head in mud to drown the noise out.

The color palette is mostly all doom and gloom with a ton of foggy blues and grays, but it's mixed with some spectacular shots of bright greenery in the forest as well as some hot red, orange, and yellow fire from bullets, bombs, and explosions that contrast well with the colder, dark nature of the film.The uncompressed monoaural soundtrack is free of issues, with all sounds, big and small, clearly separated in the mix. He also talks about working with the cast and crew and some of the hardships of this practical film. The sound design gets elaborate in other ways, like muffling out certain sounds at times while enhancing others, and it never comes off screeching or weak. Flyora's heartbroken mother, who has to take care of his younger twin sisters, begs him not to abandon her, but he unceremoniously rejects her plea and then heads to the nearby forest where the partisans have built a large camp. I also love the more recent, "The Painted Bird" (which still lacks a US physical release; I imported it), as it is a sort of sister film to this.