4 Days in May / Berlin Beyond 2012

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a Soviet Captain and his patrol have occupied an orphanage by the sea. A German army unit is camped on the beach. A secret love affair blooms against all odds. It is four days before the end of the Second World War in Germany and the world is holding its breath. Everyone is weary of fighting except for a 13-year-old orphan, Peter, who wants to prove his heroism. He tries with all his cunning to instigate trouble between the opposing troops, until he learns that the real opponent… Show more is elsewhere and in his supposed enemy he discovers a fatherly friend. In time he discovers the war's boundary lines don't run between man and man, they only
run between good and evil.
Director Screenwriter: Achim von Borries Cast: Pavel Wenzel, Aleksey Guskov, Ivan Shvedoff
Germany, Russia, Ukraine (2011), 97 min. (35mm film projection)
In Russian, German English with English subtitles

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