In a small village on the eve of the First World War, several unsolved murders, deliberate or accidental.
The environment is small, but the layout is not small. It is very concise and restrained, and it is constantly cut and left blank.
The sense of tension and oppression is hidden everywhere, a miniature exploration of the German social and psychological environment before the war. The children's performances are especially good.
It can be understood as "the origin of Nazi childhood psychology": the puritanical precepts of childhood collective training, the ignorant National Socialist hatred of wealth, and the anti-moral punishment for anti-morality. . .
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