Burial

Burial

Set in the last days of World War II, a small band of Russian soldiers led by intelligence officer Brana Vasilyeva, who is tasked with trafficking the remains of Hitler back to Stalin in Russia. En route, the unit is attacked by German ‘Werewolf’ partisans and picked off one-by-one. Brana leads her surviving comrades in a last stand to ensure their ‘cargo’ doesn’t fall into the hands of those who would see it buried in order to hide the truth forever.

  • Released:
  • Runtime: 120 minutes
  • Genre: Horror, Thrillers, War
  • Stars: Charlotte Vega, Barry Ward, Daniel Renton Skinner, Bill Milner, Harriet Walter, Tom Felton, Kristjan Üksküla, David Alexander, Niall Murphy, Ester Kuntu, Bashka Forrest, Hendrik Toompere Jr. Jr., Sten Karpov, Tambet Tuisk, Jürjo Võisula, Elsa, Kristo Viiding, Maksim Demidov, Sergei Furmanjuk, Tõnu Jää, Heiki Muda, Andres Paal, Jaan Rekkor, Kimberley Howson, Lill Tamm, Enar Tarmo, Margus Ill-Illik, Kalev Keeroja, Gerhard Saks, Jüri Štšetinin, Raido Reimann
  • Director: Ben Parker
 Comments
  • EmJayElCee - 8 July 2023
    I was expecting werewolves.
    There were no werewolves. Not a horror movie at all. We both fell asleep by the end. I think if we had actually known what it was going to be about we may have liked it more, but we're let down. My husband is a big fan of werewolves, so we were excited! At this point I'm basically just writing more characters so this review goes through so anyone else who thinks they're about to watch a kitschy werewolf nazi low budget horror movie know that that is not what they're going to be watching. It will be a meh movie that pulls you in because you think it's going to have werewolves, but only has werewolf.
  • jollyjumpup - 21 October 2022
    Nifty Little WW2 Action Thriller
    From the opening scene it's clear that we're dealing with a superbly directed, well-produced, well-written thriller. Despite an assumed modest budget, every aspect of this film is first class.

    It starts with a very smart script, written by someone with above average knowledge about WW2, including the unique political landscape in Poland following the war. Like "Inglorious Basterds", this is a slice of alternative history, but less frivolous, told with a smaller budget but more compelling authenticity.

    The cast is uniformly excellent and appealing. Charlotte Vega is both convincing and adorable as a Soviet officer leading a Russian squad on a secret mission. Nazi officers and "werewolf" guerillas are determined to thwart the mission, while some Polish peasants and partisans are caught in the middle, not happy to have either sets of "guests" in their country.

    The production values are topnotch. The cinematography and period details are outstanding.

    The costumes, right down to the proper fabric, are far above the usual for an indie war film.

    The "werewolves" are obviously what cause the confusion about this being a horror film. The term refers to the real historical unit of Hitler youth and diehard Nazi sympathers formed with the intention of carrying on the war after Germany's surrender. Depicted in the film wearing animal skins to terrify the local peasantry, this apparently confused some less observant reviewers - who also missed the dialog explaining this in the movie.

    If you're in the mood for a taut, fast-moving story and gritty hand-to-hand combat and realistic shoot-outs, you won't be disappointed.
  • jclenz - 3 September 2022
    It's watchable
    For a low-budget movie Burial is ok. There's is one good scene in the forest that shows that the director has potential.

    But really annoying is how the different languages of the charakters are managed:

    The Russians and the Germans speak English among each other, but sometimes they speak Russian or German what really makes no sense in this context.

    If the director wants to know how this is done, he should watch Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds.

    Actually I was hoping for something interesting to happen at the end, but there's no twist or revelation.

    The visual effects are good, especially the scenes of Berlin in ruines at the beginning of the movie.

    The actors perfom well, I think I never saw any of them in a movie before.

    The movie should only be watched when I do not find a better movie, but it should be easy to find a better movie.