The 317th platoon 1965 pg 03311965 us war, history, drama 1h 40m user score. The two films with similar subject matter and setting but with extremely different approaches and style. The film was based on schoendoerffers 1963 novel of the same name. One of the first films to deal with the subject, the 317th platoon focused on the conflict between an inexperienced officer jacques perrin and a. In 1960, the italian director valerio zurlini cast him to appear alongside claudia cardinale in girl with a. It stars jacques perrin as lieutenant torrens, bruno cremer as adjutant willsdorf and pierre fabre as sergeant roudier. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic souslieutenant torrens, and by adjutant willsdorf, a wwii veteran of the werhmacht. For businessexclusive pricing, quantity discounts and downloadable vat invoices. The 317th platoon pierre schoendoerffer jacques perrin, bruno cremer. Watched pierre schoendoerffers the 317th platoon along side sam fullers 1957 film china gate as part of a curious self made war film double bill.
It contains the daily gritty realism faced by the platoon as it abandons its position and initially heads to believed safety at dien bien phu. The heroes of telemark 1965 anthony mann, kirk douglas, richard harris, ulla. The 10th victim elio petri marcello mastroianni, ursula andress, elsa martinelli, science fiction, italianfrench coproduction. I had not known about the movie until i read a recommendation by the military historian anthony beevor. The 317th platoon is politically incorrect and unacceptable to the oligarchy that controls both america and the eu, an oligarchy that rides a threeheaded beast of socialism, globalism and zionism. Pierre schoendoerffer obituary war films the guardian. The film was based on a book written by schoendoerffer two years earlier. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic souslieutenant torrens, and by. P ierre schoendoerffers the 317th platoon distinguishes between being moral and moralizing by crafting characters who respond to the presenttense demands of battletorn indochina rather than stand around and wax poetic about the nature of war. The films heroes are fighting against communists, who terrorized. Released in 1965, a year ahead of gillo pontecorvos the battle of algiers, the film functions as an antidote to the decades of propaganda films. Bruno cremer left plays willsdorf, the secondincommand to torrens jacques perrin, in pierre schoendoerffers 1965 masterpiece the 317th platoon, which surveys the doomed 1954.
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