Uomini Contro (Many Wars Ago)
Part of the Real World War 1
| Director: | Francesco Rosi |
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| Certificate: | Unknown |
| Length: | |
| Format: | DVD |
| Language: | Italian |
| Country: | Italy/Yugoslavia |
Italy 1917 – society is violently split down the middle over the question of whether to continue intervention in the war. Anarchists and socialists are intent on causing so much trouble that continued intervention is impossible. Railway lines are ripped up, battle lines are drawn. On the Isonzo front a General smells socialism behind the troops reaction to his orders which consist of supplementing frontal attacks against machine-guns with medieval fighting schemes. His dispirited troops must be prodded with ever harsher measures into storming the Austrian positions, a disastrous Italian attack upon the Austrian troops finally leads to a mutiny among the decimated Italian troops.
Uomini Contro is a classic European anti-war film, not to be missed.
Other films in the Real World War 1:
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Film: Oh! What A Lovely War (1969)
29 Jun 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Oh! What a Lovely War redefines the tragedy of World War 1 in bawdy music-hall terms. Of the many fleeting satiric images parading past the camera, one of the most indelible is the sight of several generals playing leapfrog as the world all around them goes to hell.
13
Film: La Grande Illusion (1937)
13 Jul 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Renoir's classic is not a movie about a prison escape, nor is it jingoistic in its politics; it's a meditation on the collapse of the old order of European civilization.
27
Film: Csillagosok, Katonák (The Red And The White) (1968)
27 Jul 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Csillagosok, katonák deals with the Russian Civil War. Jancsó produces a profoundly anti-heroic film that depicts the senseless brutality of the Russian Civil War specifically and all armed combat in general.
17
Film: Paths Of Glory (1957)
17 Aug 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Shown in place of Uomini Contro :The futility and irony of the war in the trenches in WWI is shown as a unit commander in the French army must deal with the mutiny of his men and a glory-seeking general after part of his force falls back under fire in an impossible attack.
15
Film: Gw Pabst Double Bill: Westfront:1918 With Kameradschaft (1930 And 1931)
15 Oct 2014, 7:30 p.m.
Westfront:1918 Vier von der infanterie:(1930) Viewed by many critics as superior to the US made All Quiet on the Western Front of the same year and marking the skilled transition to the new technology of sound by Austrian master film maker GW Pabst. Focussing on the desperate lives of German troops in the trenches it also casts light on the degradations faced by their families the last months of the war. Kameradschaft: 1931 drama directed by Austrian director G. W. Pabst. A plea against war and for friendship between peoples, told through the story of French miners rescued by German colleagues after a firedamp explosion.
26
Film: Lalie Polne (The Lilies Of The Field)
26 Oct 2014, 7:30 p.m.
09
Film: All Quiet On The Western Front (1930)
9 Nov 2014, 7:30 p.m.
This film is adapted from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque. The film follows a group of German schoolboys, talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War 1 by their jingoistic teacher.