Year: 1978
Duration: 1:42:16
Directed by: Umberto Lenzi
Actors: Helmut Berger, Samantha Eggar, Giuliano Gemma
Language: English
Country: Italy | West Germany | Yugoslavia
Also known as: Il grande attacco, Battle Force, The Battle of the Mareth Line, The Great Battle, The Greatest Battle, A Grande Batalha, La gran batalla, Det store panserslag, La última batalla del Africa Korps, Etulinja, Helvetet 1943, La grande bataille, I mahi tou Mareth, A nagy csata, Az ütközet, O Grande Ataque, Ökenråttornas revansch, Die große Offensive
Description: There is no a single plot. Two sons of the American General, only one of which is mentioned in action and replaced by an English officer in the performance of Gemma. German honest officer and his actress wife was a Jew that falls in the absence of the husband under the scope of a love Tolstoy claims SS, but proudly reject him and find themselves in the hands of the Gestapo. Not without nobility, but a cold German Helmut Berger, ideological Nazi, sympathetic widowed French, forced to go to sell yourself at risk of hunger. Then different combat purposes hero Berger, and how different the appointment of its antagonist, or one of the antagonists, character Gemma, and this Frenchwoman, sink to the level of drunken whores. All this is not of great importance, these fragments of life stories, they padded packaging for decency between what really focuses the attention of the Director – terrifying movement of tanks, explosions, gunfights, falling bodies, blown into splinters and rubble buildings.
Marcel Proust about Baron Charles, gays, masochist, a lurker for a family brawl workers, casual reads “the Baron loved battle paintings”. And actually loved, in one of the dialogues he discovers serious knowledge about the painting of Velazquez “Spears” on the military theme. But peek behind the “battle” servants, and to admire the paintings of Velazquez led him one – a perverse pleasure to see the ugliness that is associated with pain, suffering, destruction of human relations, life and flesh. In this and the momentum of cinematic creation Umberto Lenzi, on the material whether the invasion of zombies-vampires with emergency nuclear power plant, on the material of the great war.
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