Shows grit better than anything Hollywood has ever done. Rates right up there with "Gone With the Wind". By pure coincidence, Kristoffer Joner is also in the only film I have watched in a theater in the last 20 years, namely "The Revanant", although I can not identify his character there. The music score is melodious, but it reminds me of twisting, tortured, groaning steel and the pulse of large reciprocating engines. Amazing how perfectly the characters age through the years covered in the movie: 1939 to 1972. No propaganda, just a purely objective look at war through the eyes of civilians. I loved the little house on Askoy and it's setting. I just want to be there.