Dear Elza!

  • War
  • Drama
11/27/2014
104

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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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    • Wuchak

      Well done Hungarian WW2 flick with low-key supernatural overtones

      On the Eastern Front during WW2, a disheartened Hungarian soldier is constantly refused furlough (Gábor Makray) and captured by the Soviets wherein hes used as a trampler, a POW used to secure mined German-occupied areas for Soviet combatants; his mastery of several languages helps extend his life.

      Dear Elza! (2014) is a Hungarian production that meshes Enemy at the Gates (2001) with Indie-styled filmmaking à la Straight Into Darkness (2004) along with spiritual underpinnings in the mold of The Devils Nightmare, aka The Devil Walks at Midnight (1971).

      The paranormal angle is slight, so dont let that turn you away. If you like WW2 flicks that emphasize the har...

      November 21, 2020

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