HeWhoCanDigIt’s review published on Letterboxd:
Bitter WWII drama about a partisan attack and the German reprisal. Richard Burton plays Herbert Kappler, head of the Sicherheitspolizei. His days of being a proud Nazi are long gone. He's fed up with the war and everything that comes with it, but Befehl ist Befehl. Kappler becomes in charge of compiling a list of more than 300 more or less random Italians who will be executed. A harrowing task and his ordeal doesn't stop there. It took some time for me to get into this sometimes ruggedly filmed affair, but it had me by the throat as soon as Kappler gets his orders and tries to organize the event. Shattering and also infuriating. Thumbs up for how the movie depicts the Nazis and how they handle this massacre. Not a black and white thing. Not all Germans are beasts and, the infuriating part, not all beasts are German. Valuable and powerful film.
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