In the Fog

Belarus

Unusual story about partisans and resistance fighters in Belarus during WW2. While the Germans are indisputably the bad guys the focus of this film is the in-fighting among the partisans themselves. The Germans have mastered the trick of turning these guys against each other.

What's odd is that all the Slavs appear to be slow-witted, slow-moving...not primitive so much as just slow. In everything they do. It gives the film an odd pacing. The Germans seem normal though so the effect is deliberate.

This inevitably called Klimov's Come and See to mind...a much better film involving the same struggle. Still this had its good qualities and held me to its (slow) resolution.

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