I read the book this was based on when I was twelve and this provides the same level of interest and entertainment now that I'm in my Forties. Just enough truth to make the schmaltz go down smoothly. I do wish they had refrained from the pretense of having "actual Soviet Archival Footage" when it was obviously being acted out on video. Especially hilarious were the "Russian" army soldiers giving each other British army salutes and the illustration of a U.S. Submarine using archival U-Boat footage with Nazi officers in uniform and all that!
That being said, for the first twenty minutes I just kept wracking my poor brain trying to remember whether Sir Roger Moore was still alive or had passed on. I finally went to the Internet to find out.
As of May 17th, 2010...HE'S ALIVE!