This film, which was directed by Pontercorvo, is exceptional not only in content but in camera work. The viewer can not but help being drawn into a world which seems so realistic as to include black and white footage, newsreel like scenes, not to mention shooting of film in the actual location in which this battle took place. Knowing that this was not an actual documentation I should have known better than to be drawn into the seeming reality of this film which made me feel that I was witnessing events taking place while being recorded. …
