... to war as a 'product of capitalism and of imperialism' in order to garner more resources and improve their standings as a world power, but eventually only found themselves to be devastated by the aftermath of the war. In the final scenes of the film, Rosenthal tells Marechal that the Swiss-German border was "man-made and invisible" and that "nature doesn't give a damn ... ". The border is symbolic of all the boundaries between "captivity and freedom, aristocrat and commoner, Gentile and Jew, German and French, prisoner and guard" (Sheehan, 2008). It concludes the theme of the film t...

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