Rent 1944: Hitler's Secret Weapon (2021)

A Drama-Documentary Biopic of Jewish Partisan for USSR in Ukraine/Poland - 1944: Hitler's Secret Weapon review by PV

This film is a drama-documentary with dramatic biopic scenes of a man fighting in the war for the USSR, the partisans, in the Ukraine and Poland, are interspliced with interviews of the 90-something man himself who is clearly ill. That is fascinating. But this is NOT just a drama, a film - it is a drama documentary.

All very interesting but very bitty and disjointed as a film - and the title is misleading., Hitler;s V2 rocket weapons are only mentioned towards the end of the film - most ofthe movie is set in 1941,2, and 1943. Not 1944! I suppose they chose the title to sell more tickets but it is misleading.

The scenes and acting is great and full marks for including the anti-Semitism of the Soviets and Ukrainians - it was not just a Nazi German thing.

Ukraine is in the news so this is timely. This shows the USSR and Russians see Ukraine as theirs really.

So a flawed film and drama-documentary BUT worth a watch - though it is overlong and bitty, does not quite hang together.

Many errors i subtitles and written pages at the end of the film which explain what happened to the real-life characters etc.

3.5 stars rounded up to 4.