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This is a very good drama showing the meaningless of the war and the.disposability of man both as a human being and as a soldier.

You can follow how innocence and moral is sacrificed (pointless).

There is also a good view of how controversial the Austro-Hungarian army was, and the relationship to the German allies. Also the perception of duties of the different nations.

I haven't seen this movie in English so I cannot judge it, but the Hungarian version's short dialogues are absolutely match the original atmosphere.

You can feel all the emotions of the soldiers fighting on a lost war's suicide mission.

This movie is heavily character progression dependent. And what this movie can't do? Developing characters!

We have got a story in the World War I. An ethnically mixed group has a secret mission to find an Italian communication camp where they use pigeons.

The movie can't find it's tone. They are mixing it all over the place. With the ever changing music themes and camera shakes and stills.

The dialog is awful you can't feel any connection to any of the characters. Even the young protagonist is empty. Making the ending of the movie meaningless with some awfully edited scenes.

The movie can't follow the rule of "show, don't tell. They have to tell us every little moment every little action that is happening as we can't see it for ourselves this movie does not have faith in its viewer.

The movie feels like some old folk got drunk after a midnight party and got lost in the woods believing its the World War I too bad we can't believe it too...

TL. DR.: Awful Dialog, Bad Characterisation, Don't waste your time with this movie!

Nobody made a movie from this theme.

You have to take your time to breath in the film, but after that it will blow your mind.

It is essential to know about some historical facts about the World War I, to understand every aspect of the movie.

You can watch a lot of films about wars, but this is uniqe. There are no super soldiers, the are no super villains. There are no incredible stories about mythic hidden treasures and acts.

The title of the movie says everything. But you have to understand it!

I'm really sure that this film is the most underrated war movie of all time.

You can't lose anything if you watch it.

The movie is a cross section of the World War I, exposing its senselessness, in a different manner but still on the same level as Remarque's classic (All Quiet on the Western Front).

The movie shows only a short period of a small commando. The title (literally "Grey Nobodies") reflects the uniform of the soldiers in the foggy season as well as the soldiers' insignificance together with the mission's insignificance. Somehow, in contrast with all this grayness, viewers can touch the tension. Walk of the small group, hardly carrying their equipment, exhausted and starving, out of ammunition, guarding the ragged camp ... reminded me veteran classics in best US war movies.

Having survived perhaps years in the war, personality of the soldiers are not anymore hidden beneath the army discipline. Strong characters, their desires and fears, their past and fate, everything becomes framed in a kind of finale I would not spoil here.

***

Update: the one-hour film was financed by a World War memorial program and shown on a TV channel. It seems to be available (in full HD) on the most popular video sharing service under its original Hungarian title.

This movie is overrated by patriotic hungarians, it doesn't deserve 7 out of 10.

Not only is this a low budget movie, but the script is also poorly written. It has clumsy dialogues, uninteresting characters, and some unlikely scenes. One such example is when at one point the protagonist sneaks behind an enemy soilder, stabs him in the back, but the guy doesn't even lets out a small "ouch", however as a last effort he tries to turn around and shoot our hero before dropping dead.

Nonetheless I must give some credit to the actors who tried to bring out the most of the screenplay and to the costume designers for the accurate representation of those times. The story and action still sucks tho. 3/10