An awful war atmosphere where good sentiments and feelings are mixed up with dreadful killings and hatred deeds. Russian front in 1944 when the German army retreats defeated. A private in a German army company gets a long waited two weeks leave to go to his home town in Germany. When he gets there he finds his house bombed and his parents absent he doesn't know where to. He starts looking for them and asking information from local people but always unsuccessfully. Meanwhile he meets a girl who is the daughter of a well known local doctor who has been sent to a concentration camp she doesn't know where. They fall in love with each other and start looking together for her father and his parents. John Gavin adn LIlo Pulver do superb excellent roles in these two parts. It is a movie that keeps you emotionally caught up from the beginning till the end.
A curious note: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the novel that inspired this movie does the part of an old proffessor who Ernst Graeber (the soldier) tries to- contact to get information and opinion.
A curious note: Erich Maria Remarque, the author of the novel that inspired this movie does the part of an old proffessor who Ernst Graeber (the soldier) tries to- contact to get information and opinion.