Speech in the film of the incredible historical episode. Improbability of it is that the two men are on opposite sides of the warring camps were able to show mercy to one another, and even more, their relationship as friendly and continued after graduation. The Second World War. Michael I. Plotnikov and Gerhard Philippe Humbert: Carpenters - Siberian, a Jew, a descendant of exiled convicts, Humbert - a German aristocrat during. World War II, a member of the Hitler NDSAP, confessed racism and anti-Semitism. Both members of the Battle of Stalingrad. It so happened that the two "fragments" of collapsed empires have found each other and started a lively correspondence. These conversations lasted 10 years. The letters are unique in their revelations of former enemies, who managed to overcome alienation, to understand each other and become not only like-minded people, but also friends.