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re: Foreign WWII Films
Posted on 2/22/25 at 10:42 pm to sledgehammer
Posted on 2/22/25 at 10:42 pm to sledgehammer
The Four Days of Naples
One of the great WWII films, Oscar-nominated as best foreign language film, and for its screenplay.
Pay special attention to how the film shows isolated figures in empty, desolate urban spaces -- a technique dating back to Eisenstein, later to be used by post-apocalyptic movies and even video games.
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During World War II, the people of Naples are forcibly transported to slave-labor camps by the occupying Germans. In September 1943 they revolt against the invaders, fighting them house-by-house armed with any weapon they can find.
One of the great WWII films, Oscar-nominated as best foreign language film, and for its screenplay.
Pay special attention to how the film shows isolated figures in empty, desolate urban spaces -- a technique dating back to Eisenstein, later to be used by post-apocalyptic movies and even video games.
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Posted on 2/22/25 at 10:44 pm to Kafka
LINK ]Der Letzte Akt (1955)
For all the nazi movie lovers here (and who here is not a nazi movie lover?), this was the first film to tell the story of Hitler's final days (as well as the first postwar German film to feature Hitler as a character). I've seen the other versions of the story (Downfall, '73 w/Guinness, '73 BBC-TV w/Frank Finley, The Bunker '81 w/Anthony Hopkins); IMHO this is the best.
Directed by the great G.W. Pabst. who'd done Pandora's Box and Kameradschaft in the good old days. He also made two films under the nazis, and spent some time in limbo after the war, but eventually was officially rehabilitated.
Many scenes are shot in contrasty B&W which gives it the ambiance of a newsreel, while other sections are in the noir style of Pabst's glory days.
Features an early appearance by Oskar Werner (Jules & Jim, Ship of Fools, Fahrenheit 451) as a young captain/outsider-observer figure who enters the bunker.
For all the nazi movie lovers here (and who here is not a nazi movie lover?), this was the first film to tell the story of Hitler's final days (as well as the first postwar German film to feature Hitler as a character). I've seen the other versions of the story (Downfall, '73 w/Guinness, '73 BBC-TV w/Frank Finley, The Bunker '81 w/Anthony Hopkins); IMHO this is the best.
Directed by the great G.W. Pabst. who'd done Pandora's Box and Kameradschaft in the good old days. He also made two films under the nazis, and spent some time in limbo after the war, but eventually was officially rehabilitated.
Many scenes are shot in contrasty B&W which gives it the ambiance of a newsreel, while other sections are in the noir style of Pabst's glory days.
Features an early appearance by Oskar Werner (Jules & Jim, Ship of Fools, Fahrenheit 451) as a young captain/outsider-observer figure who enters the bunker.
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