Dear Elza!
2014 · 104 MIN · IMDB 5.7 · 540 VOTES · DIR. Zoltán Füle
Overview
End of 1942, Ukraine, eastern front. The Private Lombos (Gábor Makray), a soldier loyal to his homeland, whose only desire as a freshman is to see his young wife again, serves here. However, due to an administrative error, he misses the train heading home. He thinks it can’t get any worse, but the real hell only begins. Educated young teacher, who speaks 3 languages, desperately fulfills his duty, takes up arms again, and marches on the Eastern Front. He is wounded in an attack and survives the night behind enemy lines in a pit. This is when he meets a mysterious old man (Tamás Varga), and this meeting changes everything. The old man's words shake his unbroken faith in his military family and homeland. At dawn, Russian soldiers find them, and Lombos is captured and then caught among the “tramplers”. The old man then also appears among the enemy's ranks, walks in the shadows, and tries to keep the young soldier alive at all costs with his advice.
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00:00:38 Where have you been?
00:04:08 I'm on my way home, to Budapest, on leave.
00:06:42 But Sergeant, sir, these are just empty words.
00:12:17 Stand to, prepare for incoming!
00:14:17 For the sausage.
00:18:59 Well, it wouldn't be the first time a lonely woman, left at home... mistakes...
00:21:53 Why did you want my journal, anyway?
00:24:18 No mercy shown, no mercy expected. That's the verdict. I won't compromise.
00:27:34 I bet you haven't seen anything like this before!
00:32:28 What was all that for?
00:35:09 We shouldn't neglect it like this.
00:38:20 Most of them I don't care much for, but there are a few valuable people.
00:43:42 This is the value of human life around here. It's worth a few colored pieces of paper.
00:49:09 Did you know, son, that tramplers get the most vodka in the Soviet army?
00:54:50 What was that about, Tolik?
00:58:22 On what?
01:04:29 Oh no...
01:11:49 Look, guys, what a nice surprise!
01:15:49 is only useful if it also takes a landmine out of commission.
01:24:09 I can save her.
01:26:37 What do you want?
01:29:55 Comrade Varvalin!
01:37:18 Trust me.
01:40:28 that's Hungary over there.
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