My Way Home (1965)

My Way Home 1965 In the final days of WWII, a seventeen year old boy wanders the countryside He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more after he has donned a German uniform for warmth and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the directors consistent themes the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power