War film, psychological drama. A film of interrogative remembrance and elegy along the lines of the innovations of the French "New Wave," but also through the rehabilitation of traditional flashbacks with a historical-philosophical opening. The young intellectual hero, mortally wounded on the front lines of the Second World War, recalls, in successive steps, his own past and that of his father (up to the period preceding the First World War), attempting to answer fundamental questions regarding the rationale of war and preparations for war, in general
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