Director Max Färberböck returns to 1940s Germany (after Aimée and Jaguar, 1999) to examine a wartime tragedy that up until the last few years had been treated as fiercely off-limits: the rape of millions of German women during and after the Battle for Berlin, many of them multiple times, by the occupying / ”liberating” Soviet…
Category: History and War Movies
The Edge of Love (2009)
Tagline: The only thing more dangerous than war… is love. A beautifully-drawn love story, the film revolves around two feisty, free-spirited women, Caitlin Thomas (Sienna Miller) and Vera Killick (Keira Knightley); Vera’s husband, William Killick (Murphy); and the brilliant, charismatic poet Dylan Thomas (Matthew Rhys) who loves both women. Broken promises, passion, betrayal, the shadow…
The Hurt Locker (2009)
Tagline: War is a drug. In the summer of 2004, Sergeant J.T. Sanborn (Anthony Mackie) and Specialist Owen Eldridge (Brian Geraghty) of Bravo Company are at the volatile center of the war, part of a small counterforce specifically trained to handle the homemade bombs, or Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), that account for more than half…
Inglourious Basterds (2009)
Tagline: Once upon a time, in Nazi occupied France. In Quentin Tarantino’s war epic “Inglorious Bastards,” a band of U.S. soldiers facing death by firing squad for their misdeeds are given a chance to redeem themselves by heading into the perilous no-man’s lands of Nazi-occupied France on a suicide mission for the Allies. Inglourious Basterds…