This movie should have won at least one Oscar or Golden Globe.
I do not wonder why it didn't win, because these 2 awards are held and judged by actors who slap and attack each other in that ceremony for personal matters, are lazy enough to never watch a non English language movie unless it is something that's advertised in their boring less than useless tv ads, are not professional at all, have no boundaries, are bad at acting, and have nothing to show for except for expensive sound effects etc., their knowledge of the outside is so little except for world war 2 and maybe one or 2 wars their country has been responsible for, and their willingness to learn is so low, that I don't think they are going to understand why this movie is stunning. This movie is among top 5 movies I have seen. There are no sound effects, no women so can attract audience / men can fight for and make the movie heroic, no mansions so they can hold parties and attract audience, no rich life drama, no romance drama, no western world drama, no Hawaiian nice weather show off, no action movie drama, etc. It's a village, people work hard, make their own fire, do not struggle to figure dumb things like what kind of dumb horror movie I should watch tonight, where people kill each other horrible, so they can watch and enjoy, and bring some joy to their aimless stupid lazy lives by watching this nonsense. This movie is very simple. There is a war, in some part of a country. 2 sides are fighting. There are 4 men who are very different from each other, but very similar in some aspects, because we are all human beings. They take advantage of this similarity, put aside their conflict, and defend each other. They realize it is not logical to fight, because as Ivo says at the end of the movie "this is no one's war". They still have beliefs, but try to learn to live together peacefully. But again, unfortunately big awards are judged and held by small people in the world we live in. If this movie was in English, made in the US, had actors who were advertised on tv 24/7 and had hormones injected in their bodies, took selfies of themselves everyday and talked to audience about dumb dull stuff on Instagram every day, was about one or 2 things that the majority know about "the world", and had a lot of action, or effects, I am sure it would win 10 Oscars and Golden Globe awards.