Ronald Barbour

I like it. I would have loved it; however, the unhappy - the TRAGIC ending ruined it for me. But I'm an incurable romantic who wants to see the protagonist(s) ride off into the sunset and live happily ever after. Yes, the movie does achieve it's goal of showing an impossible love affair by mismatched lovers in the most tense years of the Cold War between East and West - and most importantly the movie illustrates how socialist politics invades and ruins every sphere of civil life in a country - in this case, the traditional music of the Polish people, which was perverted by the Communists to little more than a propaganda outlet. The movie speaks volumes of truth in stark black & black - there are no shadows....no grey areas in its condemnation of tyranny - and how that oppression wrecks the lives of freethinkers and artists. This is a timely message for our times where a corrupt, degenerate neo-socialist ideology has invaded all spheres of American cultural life - and where frequently artists, actors and freethinkers are denied job opportunities because of being politically incorrect.

Excellent movie! Americans often forget the sacrifices of our gallant Allies in the Vietnam War. The Task Force of Aussies and New Zealanders was one such band of brothers...