Understated, even a bit muffled or muzzled, wartime drama about Italian POWs in Scotland, working in the fields alongside the natives and living next door to a comely and, by local lights, overhospitable farm wife. There are plenty of things to like here, such as the troll-faced wallflower's unaccompanied song at the Saturday-night dance; but there are not all that many of them, come to think of it, outside the ingenuous central performance of Phyllis Logan, who always has an air about her of a recent or imminent sneeze. With Giovanni Mauriello; written and directed by Michael Radford. (1983) — Duncan Shepherd
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