The content of the film can be divided into four distinct parts:the pre-war education of schoolboys, and the enlistment of the young German recruitsthe soldiers"" arrival at the front of World War Ithe experiences of the cruelties and horrors of war in trench warfarethe hero""s homecoming, return to the front, and ultimate deathThe film includes a series of vignettes and scenes hat portray the senselessness and futility of war from the sympathetic point of view of the young German soldiers in the trenches in the Great War who found no glory on the battlefield, meeting only death and disillusionment.When he came upon a dilapidated, boarded-up ramshackle cabin with tarps on its roof, he entered the makeshift wooden building." BackgroundThe Red Shoes(1948, UK) is a beautiful and sensitive post-war film - the 10th collaboration from the masterful and respected British directing/producing team of Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (who also scripted the original screenplay), who called themselves The Archers.The R-rated Paramount Pictures film followed the dual stories of an aging, small-time hood and a struggling oyster-bar waitress both living in the same, soon-to-be-torn-down apartment building just off the Boardwalk in the casino town of the film""s title.As a point of reference, it rivaled he scene of the monolith""s emergence to the strains of composer Richard Strauss"" "Thus Spake Zarathustra" inKubrick""s2001: A Space Odyssey (1968).