'Natural light': how suffered it is to be a Nazi

The Nazis were characterized in the 20th century by their contempt for human life and their desire for territorial expansion.

In the 21st century, however, they invade your country one morning, systematically massacre your people, and on top of that they say that you are the Nazi.

The film

, which Movistar Plus+ has premiered, is a rarity awarded at the Berlinale, an author's work, by the Hungarian Dénes Nagy, which tries to make us imagine the suffering of the executioners.

With hardly any dialogue and oppressive and gloomy photography, we follow a unit of the Hungarian army during the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union in World War II.

The soldiers arrive in a town in the Ukraine, where there are hardly any women and children left, and they take advantage of them and their supplies.

Fearful of partisan ambushes, they see anyone as suspicious.

"There are traitors in the town," they say, putting the wrong label on the resistance.

The tragedy chews slowly.

The camera stops at each silent character.

The face of the protagonist, a second lieutenant, is impassive and says it all.

You sense an inner hell from the atrocities in which he is forced to participate.

So Hungary was with the Nazis.

Also a part of the Ukrainians, who mostly fought for the USSR.

Some context: Ukraine had just buried millions of victims of the great famine caused by Stalin.

is a good exercise in historical memory from Hungary, a country that has repeatedly joined the wrong side.

And now, with the sinister Orbán re-elected, he acts as Putin's Trojan horse in the EU.

Conflicts are always complex, but for 80 years it has not been so clear who is the aggressor and who is attacked, on whose side it is a moral imperative to be.

Some voices speak of peace when they mean surrender.

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