Winter in Wartime | Full Movie | Movies Anywhere

...there's a lack of momentum here that prevents the viewer from connecting to the material on a frustratingly continuous basis...

A child-witness-to-war movie gets lost in a convention-driven screenplay

A most involving and touching coming of age tale set in a time and place when childhood was a luxury few families or nations could afford.

Shot beautifully and it evokes its setting well, but sometimes the movie relies a little too much on plot trickery and not enough on the emotional state of its main character.

Spielbergian touches...a good enough mainstream drama, but one can't help but feel it's a missed opportunity to give Terlouw a more textured treatment.