This year marks exactly eighty years since the end of the darkest European chapter of the 20th century, and it gives us an opportunity to reflect on the various stories we tell ourselves about the war. Some of them delve fully into pain and fear, some pursue hope within the darkness, others draw parallels with the present in which we live. Follow with us the threads of a history that is hard to talk about, and perhaps that's why it stands out better on the big screen.