In the final days of WWII a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops then released then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier.
I had high expectations for this film, very high. I had already seen another war film by the director and think that it - The Red and the White - is the best war film I have ever seen. My Way Home did not dissapoint, though I still prefer the other.
My Way Home follows a young man trying to make his way home, through the Hungarian countryside, in the final days of WW2. His journey turns out to be plagued by arbitrary violence and kindness, the greatest of which takes shape in his friendship with a young Russian soldier into whose custody he is placed. Neither of the young men can speak each others language, but, posted to look after and milk livestock for the Russian army, walk and hang around together playing games and so on. For a while I thought I was watching an earlier attempt at Brokeback Mountain, but I shouldn't disclose anymore about the plot...
Visually it is beautiful, its characters and narative are compelling, its action realistic. The more I have thought about it the more I like it - a great war film, and a lot more to boot. The DVD presentation is also excellent, the image clear, and it comes with a documentary about the director and an essay on the film.
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Miklos Jancso's classic film is a starkly atmospheric tale of friendship in the final days of World War II. Joska (Andras Kozak) is a young Hungarian making his way home, through countryside full of the debris of war, when he is captured and imprisoned by Russians. Left in the custody of a young Russian soldier, Kolya (Sergei Nikonenko), the two youths form a friendship in spite of not speaking each other's language. Joska's attempts to complete his journey homeward provide the framework for this powerful film, considered by many to be Jancso's first masterpiece.
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