La Bataille du Rail
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Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: FACETS VIDEO
EAN: 0736899090821
Format: Black & White, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Item Dimensions: 20
Label: Facets
Languages: FrenchOriginal LanguageEnglishSubtitled
Manufacturer: Facets
MPN: DV86932
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Facets
Region Code: 1
Release Date: January 31, 2006
Running Time: 85 minutes
Studio: Facets
Theatrical Release Date: 1945
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Editorial Review:Product Description:A remarkable and courageous film from noted French director Rene Clement (Forbidden Games) who completed the work during the final months of WWII under extremely dangerous conditions. Using a cast of non-professionals Clement tells the story of French railway workers who bravely battle the Nazis on many fronts making possible the Allied invasion of 1944. Shot in a gritty semi-documentary style Clement's film has been compared to Rossellini's groundbreaking neorealist masterpiece Open City. "The most important film [...] about the French resistance" (The Guardian). In French with English subtitles.System Requirements:Running Time 85 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: FOREIGN/LATIN UPC: 736899090821 Manufacturer No: DV86932
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"La bataille du rail" is (who doubts?) one of the most emotive and realistic war films ever made but focused from a totally new perspective. It deals with the different procedures tactics and strategies employed by these brave and anonymous railroad men, who risked their lives under the service of a free France.
The film is narrated in a semi- documental style, with a voice in off until the first third part of the movie, and explores all the set of trickeries, acts of sabotage ...
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