It Was In May

A few days after the unconditional surrender of German troops, a group of Soviet soldiers is billeted at a farmyard which the war somehow never seems to have reached. This apparently peaceful picture is eerily undermined when the Red Army soldiers are confronted with the full extent of Nazi terror.

Director: Marlen Khutsiyev

Cast: Aleksandr Arzhilovskiy, Pyotr Todorovskiy, Sergey Shakurov, Viktor Uralsky, Vladimir Gostyukhin, Vaclovas Blėdis, Eugenija Pleskyte, Viktor Mikhailov

Audience-only score — full critic data not yet in the ReelXO vault.