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The Lost People
UNITED KINGDOM · 1949

The Lost People

Muriel Box
post-war displacement ethnic conflict refugee crisis military occupation human rivalry
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Synopsis

Set in a German theatre after the Second World War, two British soldiers are holding a disparate and hostile band of refugees in this theatre, prior to returning them to their homelands. The soldiers have difficulty dealing with the rivalries between Serb and Croat, resistance fighter and collaborator, Pole and Russian, etc. The threat of plague briefly unites them, but eventually even this wears

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