I'm interested in the period not only of the great war but also some years before and after ... where do you think could I find a list of such movies? any ideas?I'm also interested in that period (not only) and i like seeing movie on it, here a little list:
I am surprised that no one has mentioned "Dr. Zhivago"...........one of my favorites. Not a whole lot about the war itself, but a good picture of the Bolshevik Revolution and how the war and revolution changed life in Russia.you're right, i love that movie too
-For Whom the Bell Tolls
'd like to add an italian tv series based on the book "heart" (Cuore) . The serie was made by Luigi Comencini.
Since the book originally was about young men who go to school in the last years of 1800, Comencini made a story about that but also about them during their adult life, in the years of 1ww.The return of Enrico at home, while he is fighting at war, and his discover of a total different world, which nothing knows about what it is happening.
I really suggest everybody to see it once. Cause 1ww was the first modern war, without the personal contct between two soldiers, but with catastrphic weapons
The movie is super also for taste italian atmosphere during the end of 1800 , here the link of the opening where you can see kids but also they became soldiers:
http://youtu.be/eqguSZ8Zu6A
The book is my favourite book, so I would censore everyone who should destroy its message, but i must admit that still now i cry for the emotion eveytime i see this tv serie, that i saw when i was at elementary school on tv.
I hope you enjoy it too!
Thanks for your attention!
-For Whom the Bell Tolls
'd like to add an italian tv series based on the book "heart" (Cuore) . The serie was made by Luigi Comencini.
Since the book originally was about young men who go to school in the last years of 1800, Comencini made a story about that but also about them during their adult life, in the years of 1ww.The return of Enrico at home, while he is fighting at war, and his discover of a total different world, which nothing knows about what it is happening.
I really suggest everybody to see it once. Cause 1ww was the first modern war, without the personal contct between two soldiers, but with catastrphic weapons
The movie is super also for taste italian atmosphere during the end of 1800 , here the link of the opening where you can see kids but also they became soldiers:
http://youtu.be/eqguSZ8Zu6A
The book is my favourite book, so I would censore everyone who should destroy its message, but i must admit that still now i cry for the emotion eveytime i see this tv serie, that i saw when i was at elementary school on tv.
I hope you enjoy it too!
Thanks for your attention!
thank you so very much for the reply! Only I believe for whom the bell tolls is a story that takes place during the spanish civil war, isn't it? Cuore is one of my favourite mini-series ever, and I'd love to find a DVD, if you have any idea where I could pls contact me!
also, I do not know if someone knows something about ''le diable au corps''
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038476/
the book is also one of my favourites (reminds me of ''summer of '42)
also http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0067803/
thanx again and welcome to the forum DIANE!
PS: I just realise we all forgot about ''a slave of love''
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075119/
(know of it from that famous lost topic on Alix ...)
The Great War forum navy section has a listing of naval films of WW I on it somewhere
Synopsis for
"L'amore e la guerra" (2007)
On the background of the First World War, in the cold of the trenches, in the middle of the mud of the battlefields and under the blows of the enemy fire are crossed the destinies of Rocco, humble miner who became a sergeant, and of the young nurse Albertina, daughter of a general.
A true and tearing passion, threatened from the captain Avogadro, who tries to hinder their love in every way because he wants to marry Albertina and put his hands on her wealth.
A story at the same time hard and delicate, in which together with the suffering and the horrors of the war, emerges with force the heroic breath that moves the deeds of a group of Italians who fight with pride in order to defend their own country, against the opportunism, the indifference and the injustice. A handful of heroes who through the courage, the solidarity and the sacrifice live their own redeem and give a sense to their tragic destiny of men.
Inspired to the book The war on mountains by Rudyard Kipling, a miniseries that conciliates an energetic civil cut to the exaltation of the feelings and the values of man.
'A brilliant production, though I don't understand why Daniel was wearing glasses because in the photogaphs of John Kipling, he wasn't wearing any.'
Back in 1914 it wasn't quite the thing for young men to wear glasses, so those who needed them frequently took them off when being photographed, particularly in uniform. For example, Gustav VI of Sweden wore glasses even in his 20s, but he didn't wear them at his wedding. Alexander of Yugoslavia was most unusual in wearing pince nez even for paintings - his eyesight really must have been bad.
Ann
I saw a really weird World War I movie on YouTube today, a British movie called Deathwatch.
Set in 1917, the story is about a bunch of British soldiers who go over the top and charge a German trench. All hell breaks loose, and soon this weird fog comes down. The soldiers suddenly find themselves wandering in a forest, and night has become day. They find their way to a deserted trench, full of corpses, and capture a German soldier, who babbles about "evil" and "demons". The soldiers can find no one else around and when they use a crystal radio (an anachronism, as crystal radio did not exist until the 1920's) to try and contact their base, they hear that their whole company was wiped out in the charge. As the movie progresses, it gets weirder and weirder, and it turns out that the German prisoner is not what he seems.
This is a good movie, I recommend it.
Sort of a Twilight Zone twist at the end
Also Lawrence of Arabia
October Ten Days that shook the World on the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power 1927 silent.
I saw this some years ago.Technically, the cinematography is pretty innovative for the time.But it is still crude, heavy-handed Soviet propaganda, almost laugh-out-loud so most of the time.But that was good enough for its sponsors, the Communist state.Subtlety was not required, and likely not have occurred to the Propaganda Ministry.Caricature and relentless sloganeering had proven quite effective in the political state of the previous decade.
October Ten Days that shook the World on the 1917 Bolshevik seizure of power 1927 silent.
The Soviet film version of a propaganda book by an American Communist. Communist propaganda squared. Why should anyone torture himself and waste one hour and a half of his life with it?
WW I movie on youtube: British Intelligence (1940)
new on YouTube the original 1919 silent movie The Lost Battalion.