hymnz1-865-256358 We who love this movie can not understand why it is not on BluRay. Any answers from anyone,,would be appreciated. This was GOOD film...looks so cloudy on a BluRay player.....PLEASE, re-format it. This needs to be doe for the fans of the movie, and the BluRay medium. The players are so fine, and the humbleness of Branaugh, is commendable.

ags123 I'll probably get a drubbing for this and a ton of "not helpful" votes, but I thought this movie was godawful! As well intentioned as it might have been (showing a different aspect of conditions in Nazi Germany) this production lacked so much as a wisp of authenticity. Acting was unconvincing, especially by the usually reliable Barbara Hershey and the no-lips Kenneth Branagh. It didn't help that some actors tried to adopt a German accent while others didn't bother to stray from San Fernando Valley English. The subject matter should generate empathy rather than stifled giggles, but blame that on the script and direction. This movie does not belong in the same category as films such as "The Pawnbroker," "The Diary of Anne Frank," "The Shop on Main Street," "Schindler's List," "Sophie's Choice," which cover a wide swath of proximate territory with far more verisimilitude and profundity.

sleepnowinthefire-1 People do not seem to realise that this IS a historically accurate film, if they had made it any other way it would have not done justice to these genuine people who really existed and really fought the evils of National Socialism (swing music was the rock n roll of the day and because of its American, often Black roots, the Nazis despised it). The ending of the film is very very poignant if you know anything about the history of the Third Reich. Do yourself a favour and read some history before claiming this is a 'boring' or 'typical' story. Whilst the characters are fictional the whole feel of the film is very genuine and representative of the difficult decisions people had to make to survive. I actually found it to be a very moving film, and I am always 'that guy' who picks up on any historical inaccuracies; this one was genuinely fantastic, I would give it 8/10 for truly capturing the feel of Hamburg (one of the least 'nazified' cities in Germany at the time) just after the annexation of Austria and the Sudetenland and just prior to the invasion of Poland. Don't watch if you only like ridiculous Hollywood action war movies full of explosions. Do watch if you like beautiful movies brimming with emotion, seething with anger at a seemingly unbeatable foe that has become the norm and overall celebrating the immense courage and spirit of humanity even in the face of such evil. The Swing Youth need to be remembered, Other reviewers do not seem to realise that this wasn't a ridiculous little organisation that didn't mean anything. Swing Kids would be sent to concentration camps or simply executed as early as 1937, and were almost always sent to death camps once the war started, yet they carried on fighting the good fight. Swing Heil!!!

movie-viking The music is fabulous, the dance scenes won awards, and kids can identify with these teens --or at least sense the joy their own grandparents (or more likely, their great grandparents) felt when dancing or playing 1930's Swing music. THIS FILM (SLIGHTLY EDITED) WOULD BE A GREAT TEACHING TOOL FOR GRADE SCHOOL ON UP...!With minor editing of swear words, vulgar sexual comments about young women, (including the teen boys' discussion of hiring women in the red light district) and a few of the PG 13-to almost R dance shots of young womens' undergarments replaced with milder shots of women in the otherwise joyful dance segments...SWING KIDS could be used to SHOW KIDS how the Nazis COULD QUICKLY transform the innocent ................into the guilty. Teachers could use clips from this film to ALSO teach persons about the almost FORGOTTEN Holocaust against the disabled..."Arvid was a cripple. He didn't belong..." says one TEENAGER. Everyone KNOWS the Nazis persecuted the Jews. But the Nazis also persecuted - the DISABLED, like the character Arvid, (a great SWING musician) who is driven to extreme action - in part maybe because he was disabled. One senses these teen boys - and their fellow teen companions - love their music and dance as much as teens do today. They deal with the steady, sometimes seductive, sometimes violent, advance of Nazis into their world...partly thru dance. (PS this film is based on actual German teens who loved swing music)