Death in the Nibelung Winter

Justus 2022-03-21 09:03:01

It is another World War II movie from a special angle. Recently, I watched "Persian Lessons" about self-salvation in the self-created language and "Silence as the Sea", the secret love of Miss France, a Nazi officer.

And this "Hitler's Boy" cut from Napola, cut from the Nazis' own school.

That kind of grief and numbness that war brings is very little in this film. Because it doesn't have a big battle. But after reading it, my heart is indeed twisted into a rope, and the pain cannot be calmed down.

Because the movie focuses on two teenagers, just two young boys. But in the tumbling Nazi magma and the endlessly turning war machines, their weakness, powerlessness, and the final "departure" of their self set off a deeper psychological impact.

Because outside of war,

It was the fading of fresh youth.

Albrecht was almost a perfect image of that era. He was immersed in the pure and cold under the ice. At that time, I didn't feel that he was leaving in pain. Instead, I seemed to see him walking in the cold ice shadow. Heaven's Ladder of Light. Friedrich went from a stern, war-minded kid to a man brave enough to leave the field of demons, awakened for the first time by a timid roommate who pounced on a grenade, and a second awakened by the execution of a Soviet prisoner in the middle of the night. , and finally Albrecht's clear and decisive gaze completely awakened him. In the white world, wearing old clothes and returning to conscience.

The touching power of this movie is not only on the two teenagers, but also on 15,000 teenagers.

They go into fanatical military academies, they may wander through Bavarian forests, stare at the blue sky by the Rhine, and become craftsmen, lawyers, ranchers. Enjoy the tranquility of life.

But you know, that's simply not possible.

Obviously possible, but still impossible.

What are you going to do? I do not know either……

The instructor left behind the compositions of those dragon-slaying knights in the Germanic mythical epic.

But you forget that those epics also have those eulogies of love and beauty.

However

1942 Nibelungen Winter Death.

View more about Before the Fall reviews

Extended Reading

Before the Fall quotes

  • Christoph Schneider: Pull yourself together!

    Albrecht Stein: Pull myself together? Do you know what we just did? You shouldn't have shot! You shouldn't have shot!

    Tjaden: I didn't give the order. Your father said they had guns!

    Albrecht Stein: Why are you looking at me like that?

    Friedrich Weimer: I'm not looking at you.

    Albrecht Stein: I know what you're thinking. Don't look at me like that!

  • Albrecht Stein: [reading from his essay] "As childish as it sounds, the winter time and the sight of freshly fallen snow always fill us with inexplicable joy. Perhaps because as children, we associated it with Christmas. I always imagine myself the hero who killed dragons, rescued virgins, and freed the world from evil. As we went out yesterday to find the prisoners, I felt like that little boy who wanted to save the world."

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: But as we returned, I understood that I am part of the evil that I wanted to save us from.

    Vogler: Albrecht, stop.

    Albrecht Stein: Shooting prisoners is wrong. They were not armed, as Governor Stein told us, to incite us. We didn't shoot men, only children.

    Vogler: Out!