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In Reply to: Re: ...is over... posted by gware on March 25, 2002 at 19:34:51:
...that's a household name alright. Thank you Eric, I shall put it on my list, but I am not too hopeful.Perhaps someone could let us know if he spots it anywhere... maybe sjb?
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Amazon have it; the 3 Video stores I go to regularly in Tokyo have all had their copies stolen, it's a very very rare occurence here and may in a strange way reflect on how good a film The Winter War is.
I've always followed the war genre as very occasionally there will be a Kanal, a Das Boot, or Tarkovskys Ivans Life is not bad; of course there are disappointments like "Stalingrad" (and I don't mean the totally apalling USA film of the same name!).
The Winter War is a lot like Kanal insofar as it transcends the actual event and shows regular people reacting in extraordinary situations, and doesn't scream "Antiwar" either.
While both director and film are obscure; as you would know with Wajda, that doesn't mean anything about the quality of their work, and particularly not this one, it's a gem.
Eric
Tokyo*
***The Winter War is a lot like Kanal insofar as it transcends the actual event and shows regular people reacting in extraordinary situations, and doesn't scream "Antiwar" either.That is so very true and I have been always saying that the true horror is always in the faces of the participants, not in the bangs and smoke. That is why the best war (OK, OK, anti-war...) films usually have almost no shooting at all. To my mind immediately come things like Forbidden Games and Ballad of a Soldier - both unforgettable and ultimate in their poignancy films.
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