Once More Unto the Breach
Overview
July, 1941. After the beginning of the German invasion, an Italian soldier, a veteran of the colonial wars, is sent to the Soviet front. As he remembers the fairy tales his Russian mother used to tell him, the train he is travelling in crosses Europe on its way to the vast Ukrainian plains, where the enemy and a cruel winter await him… (Based on the experiences of several Italian soldiers.)
Trailer
Cast
Emidio Clementi
Narrator (voice)
Iana Kichenko
Narrator (voice)
Italo Balbo
Self (archive footage)
Ewald von Kleist
Self (archive footage)
