Just watching a film based on the 1914 ChristmasTruce.
Good time to watch it- well worth it.
Good time to watch it- well worth it.
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What a crap film! In any film the Germans are eitehr the agressors or, in this case, surrender...to the French,,,,in 1914???...to escape the war? Who exactly was 'winning' the war in 1914? I just throught the pretense was ridiculous. The the 'hero' of the Film Beno Fürmann, hands over a pile of Feldpostbriefe to the French Leutnant as he surrenders?
The theatre I saw this film in in Budapest was full of Germans and Hungarians and I was listening to their comments. Just like so many of the recent war films the audience will think that this is actually how the war happened.
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Films are not always the way history was - U571 says alot about that.
As far as this movie goes - it entertains and makes some points about WW1.
As far as an accurate history goes - I would be looking to shall we say informed sources.
two which I have read - " The First day on The Somme" and "The Kaisers Battle" both by Martin Middlebrook leave the reader in no doubt about what the war was and how it was fought.
"Up the Line to Death" - An anthology of poetry by British soldier poets of WW1 present a salutary lesson.
Movies as history lessons , not always a good idea.
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