Set in World War II, the film follows a teenage boy who experiences the atrocities of the German occupation of the Soviet Union. As he witnesses mass murders, genocides, and other war crimes, he descends into insanity and despair.
In the winter of 1942, a group of Soviet partisans struggle to survive and resist the brutal occupation by German forces. The film explores themes of integrity, betrayal, and the horrors of war.
Late in the 1980s, two documentary film makers found six German men, all in their 60s and 70s, who had been soldiers in the German invasion of the USSR in 1942. Each carried an 8mm camera into battle and they still had their film. "Mein Kreig" alternates between interviews with these older men, now apologetic, philosophical, or defiant about their participation, and the footage they shot. It's chronological: basic training, the train trip East, roof-top vistas of war-torn Warsaw, peasants in Belarus, the downing with carbine volleys of a Russian plane, winter, a holiday at the Black Sea, mud, impassable roads, death, destruction and retreat. "Home, that was the front," one says.
When a 14-year-old boy and his mother escape political scandal in Byelorussia to immigrate to Belgium, they find themselves caught in a deportation nightmare. With forged papers and a hidden identity, they must navigate the brutal realities of detention centers, police violence, and the constant fear of discovery. As they try to survive and find freedom, their bond as a mother-son duo is put to the ultimate test.
In Nazi-occupied Byelorussia, a young doctor becomes the surrogate father to a group of orphaned children. As he strives to protect them from the horrors of war, he forms a bond with a half-German boy and a teenage girl, and together they navigate the challenges of survival and hope amidst the violence and chaos. Red Cherry is a poignant portrayal of the human spirit and the resilience of youth.
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