For those who do not know - the film-production quality "Steadycams" are very expensive (not the ones you see on sale at B&H/Adorama). Also, some of the motion "camera work" represents the view from the soldier's/partisan's perspective - i.e. like a reality show. This is not a "Hollywood" production, let us appreciate the work and efforts of "Fallen Grove Productions", it is not easy to produce a film/movie. Ciao, L (Veteran).

Well done. Captured the confusion of battle and the pointlessness and heartbreak of war from the perspectives of both sides.

Who cares about the very minor faults. A great movie, good story, good sound effects. Well done Fallen Grove Productions. For all those who find fault with this short film, let them do better themselves!

Brilliant!!! One word describes this piece. Thank You Fallen Grove Productions for making this work of art. You done good. Very Good!!! sorry, edit: this is Great!! Very Great

These docu-type movies are so good. Better than many Hollywood drama films and it shows a different aspect than always from the victors, which I appreciate.

As a Pole i can told you one thing- your Polish sounds not bad guys ;D and of course movie is really really good

A perspective from both sides of the conflict. Ultimately, it shows the "human(e) in most people. I thought this was well done and I thank you so much for posting. My god, I want to see more like this! I read a book years and years ago called "I was there". If I remember correctly it was based on WWII, but from the German foot soldier's perspective and even though you hated what Nazi Germany stood for, that book gave you a perspective from a young German soldier's point of view. An excellent read, and this video reminded me of that book in so many ways. Well done and again, thank you.

Well done Fallen Grove Productions. I very much enjoy the German produced short films about WWII on KZfaq. It is always good to get different perspectives on the war. I hope your new business has been successful but i also hope you will find a way to continue with film-making as you are very talented,. Cheers from Canada.

Really well done. Its no easy task to create a WW2 story on film. Or any period piece for that matter. From the gunfire, to the faux 35mm feel, to the settings and props... well done, all involved. Solid story too.

Outstanding job on this. I agree with the comments regarding the camera movements, otherwise it was phenomenal. I hope you continue to produce more along these lines.

Thank you for posting, really enjoyed the film.

Finally i've been waiting. will be sharing this. Great work!

Watching this in 2019, first 10 seconds had me sold! Brilliant Job

out of my whole music producing career,the soundtrack at the end is the most beautiful soundtrack that I've ever heard

Don't let all the critics get to you. I think, for not being a big budget film, you did a fine job with this story. Keep honing your craft and you'll keep getting better at it too. I'd watch another if you make it.

I agree. The futility, madness and the emotion of war anywhere. Thanks for posting. From the old Aussie.

Excellent film, I was stuck to my seat for 57 minutes. Thanks for the upload.

Thanks for posting. I think you did a great job building emotion. The music is amazing!!!!! Congrats from Texas.

Quite a good movie, a few technical flaws (postwar house, multistranded nylon rope) but well acted. Thanks for making this interesting and historically accurate film available on KZfaq.

This is as realistic as it gets honestly I love the content

Yo forget what anyone else says man, do your thing. I'm a Ww2 fan and both my grandparents fought in the red army. Very well done movie.

Yes, I´ll be watching this soon when I´ve got some more time! Can´t wait!

Excellent film with haunting music. Thanks for uploading it.

Very good film. I know you say you’ve stopped shooting films but I really think you should reconsider. All you needed in this film was a few pointers on Military traditions and behavior. You are a natural.

I hope you make more, Great Job and very Well Done !

I really enjoyed this film. Well done to all involved

Why all the haters. This movie was pretty darn good.

1/2 way through --- absolutely an art piece....

Respect to the bravery shown on both sides of the war! How many lives lost for nothing but power, greed and the list goes on! Shalom, friends!

amazing job! this film was very well made. keep up the good work!

Very good quality video and sound. Hope more to come🙏🏻❤️

I've read a great many of the comments, some praise, some constructive criticisms, some just stupid criticisms... so how about I just really enjoyed this film? Sure, this wasn't a multi-million dollar flick with big name actors and a huge studio for the special effects and native-speaking actors flown in and all the massively expensive stuff it takes these days to satisfy an audience that wants to see something absolutely, precisely impossible to tell from the real thing. But I loved it. I was deeply moved by the tragedy of this story.

u guys did really a good job, thank u for the accurate and awesome short film : )

Amazing story! Great effects, music, writing, costumes, all of it. I hope i see another in the works soon! Amazing job guys (:

Good film. Giving it a like. May you develop even stronger skills as you go ahead in your journey. Would request you to pay attention to minute details for example - when the resistance member with 4 German iron crosses on his neck tries to move stealthily, they would cling and clang and the sound would give his stealth away.

Well done. One technical point - no army salutes with the left hand. Use for future reference.

amazingly done! Great work!

I enjoyed this, hope theirs a part two

a very moving film. thank you !!!

Very well done film. work on the sound but the story was very good and the cinematography was tight and kept the story tense. The acting was very believable.

Excellent short, bravo!

Pretty well done, but I would recommend getting some good ww2 reenactors to help you with the uniform and gear set up. Some of it is incorrectly positioned and a few other things but it was pretty darn good. Also less shaky close up camera work, more still medium shots ;)

Wow, mate if this is your own movie, It’s VERY GOOD!!! I thought it was like a big budget German movie? Watched to the end. GREAT JOB!!!

I liked this, and think y'all did a great job!

Well Done!!! Music is excellent.

Well done, one of the best on KZfaq

Fallen Grove Productions: You gave away a lot of the film before I saw it. I'll watch it though. Thanks.

Un gran bel Lavoro. Complimenti

Interesting movie. I am croatian, but my mother's father served as a volunteer in the german army. (According to my father, in the Wehrmacht, but my mother told me that her father kept pictures of him in uniform that had to be kept hidden from anyone, otherwise he would be “punished” - so maybe even SS). I don't know a lot of his war stories, other than that he praised the german weapons and did kill. I was still a young teenager, living in Germany and only visited my grandfather once a year in croatia. Back then I didn't know a lot about WW2 other than it was a war. But I remember him telling how he mowed down serbian partisans and later russian soldiers with a fully automatic weapon. When he described it, he held his hands the typical way you hold an MP40. Since this was a weapon only issued to unit leaders, he must have at least been a sergeant. In the end, he was captured near vienna. The brits would often hand croatian and slovenian POWs over to the serbs, who would kill them all. Somehow, my grandfather survived. He was a withdrawn man, but when he talked about WW2, it was like he talked about the best time in his life. He hated communists, considered yugoslavia the “greater serbian empire” and said that “Germany and Croatia are eternal brothers in arms”. He predicted that once the Soviet Union crumbles, the croats will rise again and throw the serbs out of their country. Which is what happened. This is everything I know about him since, because like I said, he was very withdrawn. He was always working, had three jobs - he was a farmer, a coal miner and he brew his own liquor called “Sliwowitz”, just to sell it - and didn't talk a lot in general. Only WW2 got him talkative. I was 15 when the yugoslavian war broke out and haven't seen him ever since. He died in 1995. But my two uncles both served in the yugoslav war, and one still suffers from PTSD. The story of croats in WW2 never gets told. There still are hostilities between serbs and croats, and a debate among historians about which side killed more POWs and civilians. The massacres there don't get a lot of attention outside of former yugoslavia. And I always found it strange that my uncle couldn't handle the atrocities of war, while my grandfather kept his photos (that I have never seen) with pride and had glooming eyes when he talked about his combat experiences. It was a totally different generation. Very tough, hard people. A modern person can't get in their heads. They were products of their time and thankfully, as people we all evolved.

Great film!! Well done.

Good effort with a lot of technical errors. Still, you tried something different and that counts for a lot. An interesting movie.

Breath-taking.

Immoral orders must never be carried out, yet less than 1% have the courage and conviction of faith to do what is right and just when not popular to do so. Great movie!

Great short film 🎞, I want more just like this. I have always loved to see the German side of the wars and I think there should be more.

Very authentic of the horrors of war. Great film, thank you also for the upload

"The older the War.... The younger the Soldiers...... So sad"

Hooked from start to finish was gutted to read in one of the comments that they have given up making films apparently would have liked to have seen what this team could have done with a decent budget

I love it And It reminds me heavily of Generation War because of some phrases like the older the war the younger the soldiers and the soldiers talking about the medals and just everything reminds me of generation war I really like what you all are doing great work

Danke!

Epic! And you stopped making films?

A fine film. Good job.

First comment, --this is a heart wrenching film. Congratulations! Your work is excellent at portraying the reality of someone being ordered to annihilate a fellow human being in a remote location for some distant cause, truly, a very stark depiction of combat. I have watched a number of these quasi-amateur productions, and the production values are professional and very, very, engaging in their presentation. As I said above, this is a heart-wrenching film and kudos to the actors and production staff! From a film making perspective, the first-person 'shaky-cam' style in your production was well-done but can be over used and tends to disorient the audience quickly. While used to good effect in this film --by conveying the confusion and immediacy of an intense situation. But afterwards, the viewer needs to have his perspective rapidly reoriented to the Director's thrust of the plot or a nauseous interlude occurs. In other words, don't bring the audience so close to the action for too long, but keep them just close enough to stay engaged. Here is where the trick of presentation is the key. Move from the 'tactical' to the 'strategic' viewpoint of the battle. This will allow the audience a moment to reflect on the personalities and motivations of the actors involved in the scene, and let them consider how they would react at that point in the story.

Thoroughly enjoyable film.

My Grandpa Wally was in the War, so was my Dad. My Grandpa had a Walther PPK he got off a German Officer he killed. He was proud of it and carried it with him the entire war and stayed into 46.

This is brilliant.

...who salutes with the left hand...?

Kept my interest, Please make more!

Very good film I would watch more of your work

Pretty damned good!

Fantastic

Excelente vídeo de la 2 W.W., realista y objetivo..

Great movie! You shouldn't give up and quit. For a low,budget of say 5 out of 5 stars. Great story too

EXCELLENT FILM. Loved every minute.

Very well done I'm really getting tired of the american versions of WWII. This made you think. Thank you and looking forward to more. Liked n' Subscribed Cheers

Like it, well done, very good the decent action of music

Very good film, thanks you

Cool film 😎

This is The Best Ww2 film in whole KZfaq.

Where did you guys buy your uniforms? I'd like to know where you got the tunics.

Takes a lot of pages out of generation war. Did they mean to copy it this closely? Great film never the less, thanks for the upload!

These films are better than some of the big budget Hollywood flicks .

Great work!

Speechless

Superb ! Great Movie, beautiful story. Thanks.

I made it 16 minutes into this movie. I can't wait for the cinema veritas style of shaky camera to end

to much close up. couldnt read the words

Very good work. Nice film.. But can i ask you something ? Is this inspired by Generation War ? And big LIKE for that work. :)

Excellent !

"Black Sheep" was an interesting, and often riveting insight into the slaughterhouse called war. It exposed meaningless twisted ideals of honour, where, it was deemed militarily "right" to shoot a young woman in the back. I did like the frequency of the patrols, which were militaristically, very true to form. Patrols are often sent out with little warning of operations and hardly any time to prepare. What I did find distasteful were when the Germans were actually shooting at each other. I cannot bear treachery. A soldier must always be loyal to his own side. He is obliged at all times to look after the interests of his/her own side and his/her own men. We also saw the futility of the father at home encouraging his sons to fight for the Fuhrer. All-in-all a very good film, Well done!

I loved it! A few mistakes but a great story. I hope you continue to make them!:)

Left hand salute...... 33:45 Aber sonnst sehr gut gemacht. Herzlichen dank.

Very rough around the edges, especially with German soldiers outwardly committing treason however the effort put into it is immense and well appreciated I’d rate this movie a 7/10 they got many little things wrong however they pale in comparison with the things they did right, therefore setting my answer to the film ,

Great job🔥

Anyone notice the shingles on the house are modern day 30 year architectural shingles? 8:13

I really liked the sound design. Where did you find all your sounds?

Taking nothing from the cinematography the sound perspective is incredible!

At 4:20 the guy in the dot 44 camo salutes with his left hand. Why? I realize he is holding the sling with his right, but still. Every soldier knows to salute with your right hand.

the end was so heartbroken

Wow, very powerful!!

Sehr guter Kriegsfilm mit packenden Szenen und sehr talentierten Schauspielern