Bastards / Svolochi - (2005)

ENGLISH SUBTITLES!!! Russian Import, PAL, widescreen, region free DVD. Available audio tracks: DD 2.0, 5.1 and DTS RUSSIAN. NOTE: PAL is European video standard which WILL NOT play on regular R1 DVD player (multisystem PAL/NTSC compatible DVD player required). Please, get familiar with all details about DVD video standards to avoid any misunderstandings ____________________ SYNOPSIS: Actors Andrei Panin, Andrei Krasko, Aleksandr Golovnin portray top-secret subversives during WWII who train a group of orphans who should stop the actions of a German army group called "Edelweiss". They all know that after the mission is finished they all will be executed since they all know too much to be left alive Product Description

Plz buy a Region Free DVD player.

Because if you don't you will miss out on great movies like this.

Being of Russian descent I was curious about this movie. I loved it. Even when the sub-titles were lacking, my poor Russian picked up so many nuances that just can't be translated. There are scenes that are upsetting, and the tone is of infinite sadness of the Russian soul. In spite of that, the movie does not sink into hopelessness. Of course, the ending is unexpected and superb.

This film rings true to all that I know of the Soviets and true to all that I've experienced of the Russian people. December 7, 2007

Not a kids Drty Dozen!

FANTASTIC! I was expecting a sort of foreign kids Dirty Dozen with wooden acting. The kids were great, the adults were sympathetic, and the action was used only when necessary. This movie has SOUL. I highly recommend this to any WWII History class. The movie would appear to be one of those that could not have been made before the breakup of the Soviet Union because of the digs the movie makes at the failure of the socialist system to give aide to the outcasts of society, as well as the treatment of non-conformists within the adult community. At the same time, it maintains the Russian tradition seen in My Name is Ivan, of glorifying the individual soldier rather than well known heroes. The only drawback is at the end, the voice-overs from the kids were not subtititled. The DVD extras were not subtitiled either but it was interesting watching the boys acting like all boys do while in between shooting scenes.

The movie does not hit you over the head with sentimentality but I found myself crying at the end. Please give this movie a look. You can watch it in horror at the depressing conditions and situations or view it with appreciation at the love and commradary soldiers ultimatly share with one another.
July 14, 2007

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