Tuesday, September 25, 2018

PICTURE, QUOTE, MOVIE #39


1.  What movie is the picture from?

2.  What movie is this quote from?

"In a war there are many moments for compassion and tender action. There are many moments for ruthless action - what is often called ruthless - what may in many circumstances be only clarity, seeing clearly what there is to be done and doing it, directly, quickly, awake, looking at it"

3.  What movie is this?

It is a 1979 German war movie based on the novel by Gunter Grass.  The movie is set in WWII Danzig.  It was directed by Volker Schlandorff.  It is one of the most critically acclaimed war films of the 1970s.  It shared the Palme d’Or with “Apocalypse Now” at Cannes and won the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards.  It was banned in Oklahoma because of an underage sex scene.


3 comments:

  1. 1. The Longest Day

    3. The Tin Drum

    Too bad Grass didn't write a war novel on his own experiences. it would have been a lot better than The Tin Drum. He did write it as part of a nonfiction book a few years before his death, after spending six decades lecturing his fellow countrymen for not facing up to their own past.

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