AXP_918
Joined Mar 2015
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OTHER LOSSES...
A horrible chapter of World War 2 history, concerning the disgraceful treatment of German soldiers by American, British, Canadian, French and Soviet allies, near and after the war's end.
Incredible stories suppressed by political, financial and media elites since the events themselves, the facts are slowly coming to light, thanks to heroic individuals like the late Professor James Bacque of the University of Toronto who wrote the book, OTHER LOSSES and then directed this documentary, which is based on his own book.
A moving work by a most humane scholar.
A horrible chapter of World War 2 history, concerning the disgraceful treatment of German soldiers by American, British, Canadian, French and Soviet allies, near and after the war's end.
Incredible stories suppressed by political, financial and media elites since the events themselves, the facts are slowly coming to light, thanks to heroic individuals like the late Professor James Bacque of the University of Toronto who wrote the book, OTHER LOSSES and then directed this documentary, which is based on his own book.
A moving work by a most humane scholar.
Sam Peckinpah's version of battle between Germany and the Soviet Union on the Russian front is stunning. A modern hym to Homer.
James Coburn, smashing as Steiner, leads a first-rate cast which includes Maximilian Schell, James Mason and Senta Berger but the first star is Peckinpah - his directorial eye cutting to the essence of a scene with electric force, orchestration of movement, editing with incision and elan, the violence bewildering and hallucinatory. Orson Welles sent Peckinpah a telegram with high praise after seeing the work.
2mm of this film is worth 10 Saving Private Ryans. RIP Sam.
A fine, assured film in so many ways but with, for me, two significant flaws... DiCaprio and it should have been in black and white.
DiCaprio doesn't have the lankiness and his voice is too high pitched. Physically, he looks better in the role with the moustache in the latter half of the film.
Visually, the black and white would have elevated the picture to another stratosphere and perhaps hidden some of DiCaprio's shortcomings.
Anyway... the rest of the picture is mostly first class. Scorsese's direction, the production, etc. I'm an avid fan of both the film and Charles Higham's book and have my own copy.
DiCaprio doesn't have the lankiness and his voice is too high pitched. Physically, he looks better in the role with the moustache in the latter half of the film.
Visually, the black and white would have elevated the picture to another stratosphere and perhaps hidden some of DiCaprio's shortcomings.
Anyway... the rest of the picture is mostly first class. Scorsese's direction, the production, etc. I'm an avid fan of both the film and Charles Higham's book and have my own copy.