January 1945. The war is nearing an end. We follow a 14 yo boy after he discovers a downed British pilot and shelters him. He is well-meaning but naive-all sorts of complications ensue.
This film held me for an hour or so but then it took a disastrous turn toward a Disney-like sensibility which made it seem like an after-school special. It didn't help that the lead was directed to hardly speak...he spent most of the film staring at the floor. This may have had some justification...this was a young boy dealing with forces beyond his ken...but it came across as a black hole at the center of the story.
And either this character was uniquely blessed by fate or the Germans stationed in this town were unusually stupid...somewhere on the level of the ones in Hogan's Heroes.
Overall...not good enough for anyone over 15.
4
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