Spring 1941

The basic storyline for the movie is actually quite emotional (no spoilers, I'm not going to give it away) and teh acting is good, as you might expect from the strong cast.

HOWEVER the direction is absolutely amateurish! There are so many ploy holes that you really have to be asleep not to ask "how did that happen" or "how de he/she know that, or see that?" You could say that most of these are due to a bad script but they all seem to be just a case of poor direction and directorial almost contempt for his audience. You could, I suppose, still enjoy teh movie but the plot holes make so much of the storyline not make sense that I don't see how.

Definitely not one that I could recommend and, by teh way, the Germans invaded Poland in Autumn 1939 and the Russian part of Poland in Summer 1941....

This is a serious portrait of the suffering, pain and sacrifices of hideous Nazi occupation & the Jewish people.

I like the story unveiled by surviving Madam Planck 30 years later... the movie switches between the occupation to her finally sharing w her daughter of that life and village.

It is moving, only Emilia storyline too long, (time could have been spent on other aspects). We get the point early on that she is going to push too far, with tragic results to haunt her. Then the villager drunk cousin - too much of him. There was room to have one or two more characters in the story, versus overly drawn out storytelling like that.

Well worth watching - an earnest movie.

More than a bit disappointed this wasn't a very realistic war drama actors hammering out lines in English with odd stilted vaguely Slavonic accents thrown in. Then the laborious romance matters then seemed to draw a veil over what was left of the realism in the movie and I'm sorry but with the milk maid plunging visuals I didn't need a 'We are Slavic' soundtrack to imagine that fantastic erotically charged Polish trash-pop entry in Eurovision 2014. It nearly won. Anyway. Then the flash forwards elements make use of over simplistic visual references - yes, it's the same place, again... And is there enough prosthetics? A shortage?

The film in a serious subject, but far too often the shaky cam forces the audience to look away missing much of this movie. If you like nausea and headaches check it out. Otherwise simply skip this one. Its really surprising to me that in a day in age when there is so much hardware available to directors to keep video smooth and professional that something like this could ever get made. Directors and Investors: It doesn't matter how good your script is, if you make your movie look like a middle school phone camera youtube video, we can't watch it.

I have seen many World War II documentaries and movies. Even more on the German caused Holocaust. Although this isn't focused on concentration camps like most of them are, this for some reason depicted the Jewish pain better than most.