The film follows three soldiers as they endure the crucible of World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
3 November 1935, New York, New York, USA
21 August 1901, Los Angeles, California, USA
10 December 1918, Banner County, Nebraska, USA
22 February 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
December 4, 1904 in Tempelburg, Pomerania, Germany [now Czaplinek, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
8 December 1930, Vienna, Austria
January 28, 1896 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]
5 February 1933, Irvington, New Jersey, USA
7 June 1917, Steubenville, Ohio, USA
25 May 1931, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
28 November 1933, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA
August 6, 1919 in Bolivar County, Mississippi, USA
10 April 1916, Horden, Durham, England, UK
26 January 1921, London, England, UK
14 December 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
18 June 1923, Newark, New Jersey, USA
6 July 1888, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
April 25, 1942 in France
February 23, 1914 in St. Louis, Missouri, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
19 August 1927, Beaumont, Texas, USA
February 10, 1907 in Nyíregyháza, Hungary
3 April 1924, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
24 November 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
11 February 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
July 25, 2003
Belíssimo filme sobre a segunda guerra, mostrando ponto de vistas de soldados de ambos os lados do front. Brando, obviamente, assume o papel de alemão - e sua humanidade faz contraponto aos horrores que testemunha.
November 28, 2008
Despite major departures from Irwin Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's film is an enjoyable, well executed WWII melodrama with top-notch turns from Marlon Brando as the sympathetic Nazi officer and Montgomery Clift as the shy Jewish-American soldier.
July 13, 2004
All three stars shine and give this film a luster despite periodic breakdowns in the way the episodic story was told.
