142 minute running time which is pretty short for a Russian (Soviet) movie … the horrors of war … I think I heard someone compare this movie to Son of Saul (which was my favorite movie from whatever year it came out), so I rented it. Atrocities on full display, not for the faint of heart. Should you (come and) see it? Well, it depends on if you can stomach it, if you don’t fear the nightmares that may follow.

Rita Kempley wrote: “… [Klimov creates a] hallucinatory nether world of blood and mud and escalating madness.“