Sunday, May 13, 2018

PICTURE, QUOTE, MOVIE #33


1.  What movie is the picture from?

2.  What movie is the following quote from?

"I think now, looking back, we did not fight the enemy, we fought ourselves. The enemy was in us. The war is over for me now, but it will always be there, the rest of my days."

3.  What movie is this a description of?

  The action takes place in the Taman Peninsula in the Caucasus in 1943.  The Germans are in the midst of their retreat from Stalingrad.  The film was the director’s last great feature and his only war movie.  He supposedly was heavily drinking during the shoot.  The movie is based on the novel "The Willing Flesh" by Willi Heinrich.  The movie follows the book fairly closely.   The movie was filmed on location in Yugoslavia with the cooperation of the Yugoslavian army.  Because the production ran out of money, the ending had to be improvised.  The release met with mixed reviews and it did not do well at the box office.  It’s reputation has been rising over the years, however.

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  2. Guns of Navarone
    Platoon
    Cross of Iron

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  3. I had Guns of Navarone and Cross of Iron. But I didn't know the second (if bojan is correct).

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