In Love And War (2001)

I just got done watching this movie and found it a little odd - until I saw it is a made-for-TV movie (from Hallmark) and then it all made sense. It is based on the true story of an English officer (Eric Newby) who is captured by the Italians in Italy in 1943. He is kept in a "prison" - although it is rather nice for one - until the Italians leave the war and the Germans come.

With the Italian soldiers it was very slap-stick comedy, but with the German soldiers it was the typical German thoroughness that was shown. Eric escapes from the Italian collaborators (the Black Shirts) and is helped by a series of different ordinary Italians (including one in particular named, Wanda.)

In the end Eric is captured by the Germans and sent to a POW camp. The war ends and he returns and marries Wanda. The end of the film said that as of 2001 they have been married for 55 years - although I believe Eric is now dead. I don't know about Wanda.

It was a decent movie. The storyline was good. Collum Blue (who played Eric) and Barbora Bobulova - who is really Slovakian -(who played Wanda) were both good actors. I just didn't expect all the comedy in a war-romance movie.