二战末期,一个17岁的小男孩在乡间游荡,他先被苏维埃军队捉获,然后释放,之后又因为穿上一件御寒的德国军装而再次被苏联部队逮捕,被监禁在一个偏僻的兵营,在那里他跟一名年轻的苏联士兵建立起一段不可能的友谊关系。影片展示出导演一贯的主题:心理因素、随意的暴力和独裁政权。In the final days of WWII, a seventeen-year-old boy wanders the countryside. He is captured by Soviet troops, then released, then captured once more - after he has donned a German uniform for warmth - and imprisoned at a remote barracks, where he strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Russian soldier. His attempts to return home form the crux of this wonderfully lyrical film, which displays all of the director's consistent themes: the psychological presence of landscape, the randomness of violence, the arbitrary nature of power.