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Awesome though not flawless war drama depicting the last days of World war one, on the front line, where French Poilus face German soldiers, in their own trench, just a few hundred yards away. This is a terrific character study for an obvious pacifist story. Some clumsy scenes, such as this one, where one French soldier, after deciding a truce with the enemy, get rid of an no exploded bomb, just in the middle of the no man's land with the help of a German soldier. Clumsy because the film makers could not prevent to let the German soldier say: "what a silly war". Why saying such this? It was useless, the scene itself is far enough to explain the pacifist message. Such as this other one, showing German and French soldiers playing soccer in the no man's land again. That's my own opinion. You have the platoon lieutenant very rough with his own men, but suffering too because his fiancee sent him a letter in which she explains to have met another man. I won't spoil it any further but it's really worth seeing. One funny sequence, naked French soldiers swimming in a river and meeting German soldiers, also naked...