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Four Days in May (Четыре дня в мае)

Francaise title: 4 Jours en mai
Spain title: 4 Days in May
Russian title: Четыре дня в мае
Original title: 4 Tage im Mai

Alternative titles:
4 Days in May | 4 дня в мае | Vier Tage im Mai

War drama – Russia, Germany
Production year: 2010
Movie length: 97 minutes

Director: Achim von Borries
Writer: Achim von Borries
Cinematograph: Bernd Fischer
Music: Thomas Feiner

Movie description:

A group of Russian soldiers are sent into Northern Germany at the tail-end of WWII, where they occupy a children’s home in close proximity to a larger German unit. Against these odds, a friendship forms between a German orphan and a childless Soviet captain.

Four days before the end of the Second World War in Germany. The world is holding its breath. 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. Everyone is weary of fighting, except for the thirteen-year-old orphan Peter, who wants to prove that he is a hero and tries with all his cunning and power to instigate trouble between the opposing troops until he finds a fatherly friend in the supposed enemy and has to learn that the real opponent is lurking elsewhere. This time the boundary lines don’t run between friend and foe, but between good and evil.

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