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Mike Hale, New York Times: As directed by the Czech veteran Juraj Herz in prestige-television style, the bulk of the film is a classically proportioned and tasteful wartime soap opera. Read more
Nick Schager, Time Out: Compensates for its under-occupation familiarity with poignant performances, confident direction and an impressively sober sense of how the era's tragedy kept expanding exponentially. Read more
John Anderson, Variety: More soap opera than high drama, the film is confused and confusing, and tedious to boot. Read more
Mark Holcomb, Village Voice: A World War II melodrama with a hook, Habermann does a credible job of personalizing a period of the war largely unknown outside the Czech Republic. Read more