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UNITED STATES · 1980

The Big Red One

Samuel Fuller
New Hollywood World War II combat military brotherhood trauma and survival the cost of war witnessing atrocities
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Synopsis

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.

Year1980
CountryUnited States
DirectorSamuel Fuller
MovementNew Hollywood
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