The real glory of war is surviving
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
- 6.7
- 1980
- Released
- 1h 53m
Lee Marvin
The Sergeant
Mark Hamill
Griff
Robert Carradine
Zab
Bobby Di Cicco
Vinci
Kelly Ward
Johnson
Stéphane Audran
Walloon
Siegfried Rauch
Schroeder
Serge Marquand
Rensonnet
Charles Macaulay
General / Captain
Alain Doutey
Broban
Maurice Marsac
Vichy Colonel
Colin Gilbert
Dog Face POWJoseph Clark
ShepKen Campbell
LemchekDoug Werner
Switolski
Marthe Villalonga
Madame Marbaise
Giovanna Galletti
Woman in Sicilian VillageGregori Buimistre
The HunShimon Barr
German Male NurseMatteo Zoffoli
Sicilian BoyAbraham Ronai
German Field MarshallGalit Rotman
Pregnant Frenchwoman
Christa Lang
German Countess (extended edition) (uncredited)
Released
en
$4,500,000.00
$7,206,220.00
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- #africa
- #concentration camp
- #world war ii
- #omaha beach
- #infantry
- #us army
- #d-day
- #sergeant
- #hospital
- #anti war
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**_Sam Fuller’s WW2 tour of North Africa, Sicily and France-to-Czechoslovakia_** Shot in the summer of 1978, this was inspired by Fuller’s experiences in the war with Robert Carradine as Private Zab representing him. It’s a lot to cram into less than 2 hours, and this explains the criticisms that the film comes across as a collection of incidents with little character development. Yet Fuller wa