Normally I don't take Chinese propaganda seriously, it's made for one purpose and you can look it the other way even see the fun it. But this one is not the usual fiction movie that act like a fiction movie. This is a serious movie and make it claims that it actually happened but the history book says it never did. A false seriousness.
Zhu Min is transferred to Russian university in Moscow in the 1940s. She is happy with her friends until the German Nazi occupation of western part of Russia and Ukraine. She sended to a doctor as a slave, he finds her pure and give her an evil gift of a giant tattoo on her back of the Nazi eagle, she is scarred for life.
Sadly this striking story is false. Nazi did a lot of cruel things but there has never been heard of Chinese captivity nor a girl forced to wear a Nazi tattoo on her back. As far as I know Zhu Min was a daughter of Zhu De that studied in Russia but never heard of anything else about her captivity or anything like that except from a memoir that probably wasn't written by her. And her father wasn't executed, but the communist did execute a lot of anti communist in china which the movie doesn't tell of course but instead cook up a propaganda that her father was poor and executed but the anti communist. And to top the propaganda, a young Chinese boy in this movie is a hero , who do everything right, shoot the Nazis, humiliate them, and adopt a Russian girl even though he is like 16 years old, just to show how good the Chinese people are. Again not a problem if you are blind or can ignore the propaganda purposes of this character existence, which is a lot in Chinese movies unfortunately.
If this movie wasn't treated this false story as it happened then maybe I would give it a higher score but no I can't it's false seriousness, even the fiction war movies is more respectful to the history. 3/10 yes two extra point for the Russian actors who were good.
Zhu Min is transferred to Russian university in Moscow in the 1940s. She is happy with her friends until the German Nazi occupation of western part of Russia and Ukraine. She sended to a doctor as a slave, he finds her pure and give her an evil gift of a giant tattoo on her back of the Nazi eagle, she is scarred for life.
Sadly this striking story is false. Nazi did a lot of cruel things but there has never been heard of Chinese captivity nor a girl forced to wear a Nazi tattoo on her back. As far as I know Zhu Min was a daughter of Zhu De that studied in Russia but never heard of anything else about her captivity or anything like that except from a memoir that probably wasn't written by her. And her father wasn't executed, but the communist did execute a lot of anti communist in china which the movie doesn't tell of course but instead cook up a propaganda that her father was poor and executed but the anti communist. And to top the propaganda, a young Chinese boy in this movie is a hero , who do everything right, shoot the Nazis, humiliate them, and adopt a Russian girl even though he is like 16 years old, just to show how good the Chinese people are. Again not a problem if you are blind or can ignore the propaganda purposes of this character existence, which is a lot in Chinese movies unfortunately.
If this movie wasn't treated this false story as it happened then maybe I would give it a higher score but no I can't it's false seriousness, even the fiction war movies is more respectful to the history. 3/10 yes two extra point for the Russian actors who were good.