Hi.
“Das Boot” is great.
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Thanks.
There’s no reason to believe it actually did make as much money in China as they say.
“All Quiet On The Western Front”
Didn’t the ChiComs outnumber the Americans four to one at the Chosin Reservoir?
Hardly a “great victory”
Can’t help laughing watching Downfall now after seeing those Hitler parodies.
“Brest Fortress” and “Come and See” from Belarus
“Katyń” and “Warsaw 44” from Poland
“Stalingrad” - the German one from 1993.
I watch a lot of the Russian war movies too, of course there’s propaganda in them, as if Hollywood doesn’t put propaganda in their movies. The “Liberation” series of movies, gives a good overview of the war from the Soviet point of view.
From the title, it sounds like Xi is wiping up the people with his propaganda now that he has successfully survived the Party meeting and issued a re-written history like his hero, Mao, and the despised Deng.
I’ve been watching the “Babylon Berlin” German series this past week.
It isn’t explicitly a war film, but a most interesting examination of Berlin and Soviet geopolitics in Weimar Republic 1929 with lots of Soviet gangland activity and flashbacks to WW I twelve years earlier. I’ve read that the 1920s Berlin was a wild abandon place and this movie shows that side of the city in addition to the brutal poverty and high unemployment. It shows a lot of the Soviet-managed communist agitation going on in the city.
As is typical of such modern series, there are lots of concurrent plots and subplots.
“Stalingrad” the 1993 Vilsmaier film. “The Winter War’ from Finland, can’t remember the year.
In Enemy Hands.
There is a really good Jap movie about the last days of WWII in Manchuria and subsequent Russian occupation. Really good. Unfortunately I can’t remember it’s name.
Never saw “Kolberg”, which I hear was one of the last gasps of the Nazis to keep Germans fighting to the bitter end.
(Off-topic; but this was brought to mind when I found your post in my ping-list):
Except for ‘White Christmas’, which my husband and I watch every year, I haven’t watched any war-related movie since ‘Forrest Gump’ (which I like very much, but find sort of depressing.)
When I was a kid, my WWII vet father liked to watch the ‘Combat’ series on TV, and I watched with him.
One night, I became violently sick with a very high fever, and hallucinated that enemy soldiers were surrounding my bed, pointing rifles at me, and threatening to kill my family.
This won’t be interesting to many, but I’m an inveterate ‘twitcher’, and my husband and I watched a movie recently that I found fun, gentle and thoughtful:
‘The Big Year’:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Big_Year
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Check out “Come and See”.