14 minutes to shatter everything you think you know about war and mercy.
At the end of World War II, Red Army soldiers bent on brutal revenge for past atrocities attack a German city. Compassion comes from an unlikely source. Based on a true story.
Acting
Elisabeth Orth's eyes contain multitudes of trauma.
Direction
Gadge stretches 14 minutes into eternity.
Director
Marco Gadge
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The film confronts a deliberately buried history: estimated 2 million German women assaulted by Soviet troops, a topic still taboo in postwar German and Russian memory.
Greta's aged makeup took 4 hours daily; Orth insisted on minimal dialogue, believing the character's trauma lived in what she couldn't say.
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