Franz + Polina


Franz Polina is a 2006 Russian romantic drama film set in 1943 in occupied Belarus. It tells the story of Franz, an SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman whose village is massacred.

Franz stays at a Belarusian village and falls in love with Polina. The Nazis settled as friendly sympathizers in an effort to gain the confidence of the villagers while they await the order burn the villages to the ground and kill the inhabitants. Franz kills his commanding officer to save his new girl friends mother. When her partisan brother returns he whispers to Polina to get Franz away and she passes Franz off as her deafmute brother. Polina became pregnant after they briefly settled in a log cabin in the woods.Always on the run, Polina is shot by a collaborator but saved by Franz as they join a band of refugees. Franz kills a German officer for his uniform and infiltrates a nearby village to obtain an antibiotic. When he returns he is already delirious with typhoid fever and accidentally reveals his national identity by slurring in German. The refugees are sympathetic with the exception of a small boy, the sole survivor of a family that was lured back to the village by the seemingly humane behavior of the SS. He has a gun, bought with his fathers watch, and his adoptive mother and sister are unable to dissuade him from using it on Franz. They warn Polina and soon the pair are on the run again. ........

Source: Wikipedia


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