4 Days in May (2011)

Original title

4 Tage im Mai

Directed by

Achim von Borries

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Ukraine, Germany, Russia

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

12

Rating

6.1 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of German soldiers and a young girl hold out in a beach house as World War II ends. A Soviet officer must decide whether to attack or negotiate.

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What happens

4 days in May (German: Vier Tage im Mai, Ukrainian: «4 дні в травні», romanized: 4 dni v travni) is a war drama film directed by Achim von Borries and starring Paul Wenzel and Aleksei Guskov. It is a German-Russian-Ukrainian co-production. The film was released on August 9, 2011, at the Locarno Film Festival. The official slogan is: "Sometimes the border goes not between “them” and “us”, but between good and evil". (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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