4 Days in May 2011
4 Days in May 2011
4 Tage im Mai (original title)
1h 37m | Drama, War | 29 September 2011 (Germany)
Storyline:
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.
User review:
Prussia 1945; 8 million refugees, 5 million raped, 3 million dead and countless personal tragedies. One of the most savage and tragic events of human history. 4 days in May records just one of the fragments that made up this tragedy.
A beach somewhere on the Baltic. A 12 year old boy caught up in the madness of war wants to fight alongside the teenage soldiers who face the relentless Russian advance. And so he neglects to lead the local orphans to the rescue boat and they are all captured by the Soviets.
This production is so magnificently directed, skillfully scripted and beautifully filmed that I should not reveal any more of the story. You simply have to see it. It will grab you from the very first seconds and keep you entirely transfixed until the final emotionally draining frame. It still drew tears even at the third viewing.
And 4 days in May is still highly relevant today. It displays the foundation logic of current German neutrality. War appears so tragic, so insane and so ultimately futile that no sensible person would ever participate in it. But most of all the film shows that there is no good or bad side in war. There are only a few individuals who become deranged through the power they enjoy because of it. Our sympathies are encouraged to all ordinary people involved – whether they are German or Russian, civilian or soldier, young or old. Every school child and young person should be shown this film without delay.
Director: Achim von Borries
Writers: Achim von Borries (screenplay), Eduard Reznik
Stars: Pavel Wenzel, Aleksey Guskov, Ivan Shvedoff
Countries of origin: Germany, Russia, Ukraine
Languages: Russian, German, English
Filming locations: Germany
Format : Matroska
Format version : Version 2
File size : 6.56 GiB
Duration : 1 h 37 min
Overall bit rate : 9 652 kb/s
Links: iMDB | NFO | Screenshots backup
Download: Nitroflare
Where could I place a request for a series?
Just request in a comment. That’s how I got this movie posted.
I would like to make a request, and although this does not seem like the place to do so, I cannot find anywhere else on here.
There is a series called “Kde padají hvezdy”, or “Where Stars Fall” in English. It would be awesome if it included subtitles, but even without, it is not hard to understand the plot lines.
This copy has Russian dubbing overtop of the German. Is there a copy that is only in German? The overlapping dialog is quite annoying.
The language is Czech – not German! On Blizzardkid there is a good version in original language – and (Russian) subtitles only for the first two episodes. They can be translated into English very easy with the right tool – but they are missing for episodes 3 – 7! The person who made this subtitles by hearing said it was much work, but he promised to add the rest too. But I’m waiting for this for many month…
Can you post the link for the copy you speak of? I would really appreciate not having overlapping diolog.