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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: INDICAN PICTURES
EAN: 0825284200423
Format: Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Label: Indican
Manufacturer: Indican
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Indican
Region Code: 1
Release Date: February 19, 2008
Running Time: 102 minutes
Sales Rank: 33469
Studio: Indican
Theatrical Release Date: 2003
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A timeless classic based on the famous William March novel. In a small American town in 1933, troubled WWI veteran Joe Delaney has just finished writing a book about his experience as a U.S. marine. How in the nightmare of war, each man is defined by singular moments in which his true character is revealed. Joe describes the German soldier who haunts his dreams, the camaraderie fused by fighting together and the reality of dying for your country.
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Rating:  - One of the great anti-war films
This is one of the great anti-war films, along with All's Quiet On The Western Front and Die Bruecke (The Bridge -- which is still not available on DVD). It has great acting from dozens of actors, without a single star in the cast. This is a powerful and poetic film, with beautiful photography -- many of the screen compositions are worthy of the great masters, Eisenstein, Dreyer, Hitchcock....
Company K consists entirely of vignettes, some of which are very short ... and unforgettable. It is commendably devoid of sentimentality, sensationalism, propagandistic jingoism, and the usual war-movie cliches. Some of the episodes are tragic and shocking: American soldiers are ordered to kill defenceless prisoners of war. A sleep-deprived soldier murders his superior officer. A decent soldier, the narrator, kills a friendly German. A piggish sergeant executes a young soldier -- who was not insubordinate, but simply too frightened to move.
The senseless carnage of World War I. The message of this film, and the novel it is based on, is that these things must never happen again. But they did happen again, and are happening now.
Rating:  - Not The Usual War Film.
This is a hard film to adjust to as it carries you through the war experence of a person who wrote a book from which this film is taken. Its not the typical story because of the excerps of individual members of Company K. It is slow moving compared to most war films and spends as much time on personel than on battle sequents. It's a moving story that is not for the faint of heart & brings out the worst of men under wars battle conditions. Even though the events took place in World War One, it holds true for our wars now. I would not recommend it to the average war buff because of it's pace and some of the events shown. All in all ,I enjoyed it. Don't expect it to leave you with a good feeling. It was well done and the acting was good with no big names. I was disappointed because there was not more battle footage, but to each his own.
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