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| Year: | 2002 |
| Rating: | 6.2(19511) |
| Listed in: | Drama, War |
| Directed by: | Gregory Hoblit |
| Actors: | Bruce Willis Colin Farrell Terrence Howard Cole Hauser Marcel Iures Linus Roache |
| "Germany 1944. For some the war has ended. For colonel William McNamara, it has not ended. For Lieutenant Thomas Hart... It has just begun." | |
Cast
| Directed by | |
|---|---|
| Gregory Hoblit | |
| Actors | |
| Bruce Willis | as Col. William A. McNamara |
| Colin Farrell | as Lt. Thomas W. Hart |
| Terrence Howard | as Lt. Lincoln A. Scott |
| Cole Hauser | as Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford |
| Marcel Iures | as Col. Werner Visser |
| Linus Roache | as Capt. Peter A. Ross |
| Vicellous Reon Shannon | as Lt. Lamar T. Archer |
| Maury Sterling | as Pfc. Dennis A. Gerber |
| Sam Jaeger | as Capt. R.G. Sisk |
| Scott Michael Campbell | as Cpl. Joe S. Cromin |
| Rory Cochrane | as Sgt. Carl S. Webb |
| Sebastian Tillinger | as Pvt. Bert D. 'Moose' Codman |
| Rick Ravanello | as Maj. Joe Clary |
| Adrian Grenier | as Pvt. Daniel E. Abrams |
| Michael Weston | as Pfc. W. Roy Potts |
| Jonathan Brandis | as Pvt. Lewis P. Wakely |
| Joe Spano | as Col. J.M. Lange |
| Sam Worthington | as Cpl. B.J. 'Depot' Guidry |
| Brad Hunt | as Pvt. G.H. 'Cookie' Bell |
| Rúaidhrí Conroy | as Cpl. D.F. Lisko |
| Tony Devlin | as Pvt. Donald W. West |
| Michael Landes | as Maj. M.F. Giannetti |
| David Barrass | as Maj. Hans Fussel |
| Gary Gold | as McNamara's Aide |
| Danny Babington | as Pvt. S.T. Engler |
| Holger Handtke | as Maj. Johann Wirtz |
| Grey Williams | as Pvt. R.S. Croutch |
| Rene David Ifrah | as Pvt. T.S. Krasner |
| Steve Sarossy | as Lt. M.K. Adams |
| Rocky Marshall | as Capt. Robert M. Swann |
| Christian Kahrmann | as MP Sergeant |
| Jim Boeven | as MP Sergeant |
| Dan van Husen | as Boxcar Sergeant |
| Georg Vietje | as Morning Guard |
| Lukás Kantor | as Cranky Corporal |
| Jakub Zdenek | as Delousing Private |
| Jan Nemejovsky | as Spike Guard |
| Jan Marsík | as Tower Sentry |
| Bohumil Svarc | as Nighttime Appel Guard |
| Jirí M. Sieber | as Kooler Guard |
| Dugald Bruce Lockhart | as Capt. Lutz |
| Richard Kardhordó | as Barracks 27 POW |
| Jan Jakubec | as Lowly Guard |
| Karel Belohradský | as Guard |
| Jan Tesarz | as Guard |
| Radek Kuchar | as Guard |
| Martin Kohout | as Guard |
| Vladimir Kulhavy | as Guard |
| Martin Cízek | as Guard |
| Alan T. Ward | as Barracks 22 Officer |
| Stephen Fisher | as Barracks 22 Officer |
| Dan Brown | as Barracks 22 Officer |
| Peter Varga | as Russian POW |
| Jan Dostál | as Russian POW |
| Vít Herzina | as Russian POW |
| Michael Beran | as Pvt. Pugh |
| Joel Sugerman | as Unnamed GI |
| Ted Hollis | as German Officer |
Movie info
| Languages: | English, German |
| Filming dates: | 25 January 2001 - 10 May 2001 |
| Budget: | USD 60,000,000 |
| Gross: |
USA - 8,907,413 USD (17 February 2002) UK - 245,019 GBP (2 June 2002) Worldwide - 32,286,000 USD (2002) Italy - 887,031 EUR (30 June 2002) Singapore - 74,222 SGD (13 June 2002) Spain - 1,508,711 EUR (10 August 2002) Turkey - 35,906 USD (9 June 2004) |
| Plot: | Shortly before the end of World War II, young, bright-eyed, First-Lieutenant Thomas Hart, a third-generation desk-warrior, is stationed in an office miles away from any fighting. He meets the war only by accident and is taken prisoner. During interrogation, Hart faces a test of honor, courage, and sacrifice he had not prepared for. Surviving the interrogation, the horrified Hart witnesses courage and honor in the acts of his fellow-prisoners, who save him from certain death by sacrificing their belongings and even their own lives. At the POW camp, Hart learns that courage, sacrifice, and honor are much harder to find, as men become embittered in their captivity. Instead, fraternization, opportunism, and racism abound, ever-encouraged by the murderous Nazis, lead by a grounded Luftwaffe colonel; and mostly tolerated by the senior-ranking American colonel, in spite of his being a 4th-generation military offcer. Col. McNamara, mostly indifferent to the goings-on of his Americans, defiantly draws the line at racism, saluting even the Russian "Untermenschen" in the neighboring compound. But this line becomes much less distinct as two downed African-American pilots join him in the American compound. Suddenly, American racism manifests itself and escalates until one of the pilots is murdered, and the other is accused of murdering one of the racist conspirators. A law-student before the war, Hart is appointed by McNamara to "defend" the court-marshalled pilot, where Hart learns that McNamara has taken great pains to guarantee a verdict of "guilty" against the lone African-American. For many prisoners, the war would be over. For Hart, it has barely begun, as he fights to find within himself the courage and honor that seems to be completely lost within the camp, and only to be had among the dead and the condemned. |
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Original Soundtracks
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"Deutschland Uber Alles" Performed by The Musikkorps Liebstandarte-SS 'Adolf Hitler' Courtesy of the Tomahawk Films WW-II German Archive "Idaho" Written by Charles F. Calhoun (as Jesse Stone) Performed by Benny Goodman Courtesy of Columbia Records By Arrangement with Sony Music Licensing "Marie" Written by Irving Berlin Performed by Tommy Dorsey Courtesy of The RCA Records Label, a unit of BMG Entertainment Under license from BMG Special Products "Lili Marlene" Written by Norbert Schultze, Hans Leip and Mack David Performed by Perry Como Courtesy of The RCA Records Label, a unit of BMG Entertainment Under license from BMG Special Products "Blue Horizon" Written by Sidney Bechet Performed by Sidney Bechet and His Jazzmen Courtesy of Blue Note Records Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets "Die Fahne hoch!" Performed by The Musikkorps Liebstandarte-SS 'Adolf Hitler' Courtesy of the Tomahawk Films WW-II German Archive "Mood Indigo" Written by Barney Bigard, Irving Mills and Duke Ellington (as Edward Ellington) Performed by The Duke Ellington Band Courtesy of The RCA Records Label, a unit of BMG Entertainment Under license from BMG Special Products "Summertime" from "Porgy & Bess" Written by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward Performed by Sidney Bechet Courtesy of Blue Note Records Under license from EMI-Capitol Music Special Markets "Der Fuehrer's Face" Written by Oliver Wallace Arranged by Paul Englishby Produced by Gary Gold |
Goofs
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Continuity: The P-51 Mustang planes strafing the rail yard are not carrying any bombs when they launch their attack. Then as the POWs escape from the rail carriages, the P-51s suddenly start dropping bombs. DATE: At the start of the movie the date is given as 16 December 1944, the day that the German Ardennes Counter-Offensive (aka The Battle of the Bulge) began. When Hart crashes his jeep as he speeds away from the MPs, he ends up in a gully with a large number of dead American soldiers. A road sign seen earlier in the scene indicates that this is supposed to be the men from the infamous Malmedy Massacre. Those murders of POW's didn't happen until 17 December 1944, the day after the battle began. Continuity: The level of the alcohol in the glass jar in the Colonel's office changes between shots. At one point it rises and later lowers again without being poured. Continuity: When we first see Lt. Thomas W. Hart at the map board he is wearing Captain's bars. These change in the next scene to the correct insignia. Fact errors: In the beginning of the movie, the title sequence tells you that it is the HQ Battalion V Corps. The patch on Lt. Hart's left shoulder and the other staff members is the patch for the VIII (8th) Corps. CHAR: The highest number of aerial victories by a Tuskegee pilot was 4, not 9 as Lt. Scott claims. Interestingly, one of 2 pilots who accomplished this was named Archer. |
Quotes
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Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford: Take that you bastard! Lt. Lincoln A. Scott: Careful Bedford. That's a nigger you're rooting for. Tail's painted red, that means he's 99th, right out of Tuskegee, boy. Col. Werner Visser: Strange thing about war wounds- the older you get, the less proud of them you become. [Lt. Hart offers condolences upon learning that Col. Visser's own son was killed in action on the Russian Front] Col. Werner Visser: I killed my share of French and English in the last war; All of *them* had fathers. |
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