The Boy Soldier 1981

The Boy Soldier 1981

The Boy Soldier 1981

The Boy Soldier 1981
Allons z’enfants (original title)

Storyline:

This is a coming of age drama adapted from the 1952 Yves Gibeau novel of the same title. A young anti-militarist is forcibly sent to military school by his father. He’s a bookish pacifist who endures being bullied by his superiors all throughout school, not out of weakness rather out of strength to deny violence it’s coveted reciprocity. On the eve of his much anticipated graduation day, Word War II ensues and swaps out the freedom he earned for the brutality of its first front lines. An original score by French composer Phillipe Sarde with photography directed by Yves Boisset sets the atmosphere of 1932 in France.

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Fateless 2005

Fateless 2005

Fateless 2005

Fateless 2005
Sorstalanság (original title)
2h 20m | Drama, Romance, War | 10 February 2005 (Hungary)

Storyline:

An Hungarian youth comes of age at Buchenwald during World War II. György Köves is 14, the son of a merchant who’s sent to a forced labor camp. After his father’s departure, György gets a job at a brickyard; his bus is stopped and its Jewish occupants sent to camps. There, György find camaraderie, suffering, cruelty, illness, and death. He hears advice on preserving one’s dignity and self-esteem. He discovers hatred. If he does survive and returns to Budapest, what will he find? What is natural; what is it to be a Jew? Sepia, black and white, and color alternate to shade the mood.

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The Crossing 2020

The Crossing 2020

The Crossing 2020

The Crossing 2020
Flukten over grensen (original title)
1h 36min | Family, War | 14 February 2020 (Norway)

Storyline:

WW2, December 1942, four children on the run. Sarah and Daniel are Jews about to be deported, but hide in the cellar of Otto and Gerda, until they are discovered and their parents are arrested. They have to get to faraway neutral Sweden.

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Born a King 2019

Born a King 2019

Born a King 2019

Born a King 2019
1h 43min | Drama, History | 26 September 2019 (Saudi Arabia)

Storyline:

An extraordinary real life story set in 1919 , BORN A KING is a coming-of-age story about Faisal, a 14 year old teenage Arab prince who is dispatched from the deserts of Arabia to London by his warrior father, Prince Abdul Aziz, on a high stakes diplomatic mission to secure the formation of his country. In London he must negotiate with some of the pre-eminent figures of the age, including Lord Curzon and Winston Churchill, while forming a friendship with Princess Mary who helps guide him through the corridors of power.

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Innocent Voices 2004

Innocent Voices 2004

Innocent Voices 2004

Innocent Voices 2004
Original title: Voces inocentes
111min | Drama, Thriller, War | 16 September 2004 (Canada)

Storyline:

A young boy, in an effort to have a normal childhood in 1980’s El Salvador, is caught up in a dramatic fight for his life as he desperately tries to avoid the war which is raging all around him.

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Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974

Lacombe, Lucien 1974
Lacombe Lucien (original title)
R | 2h 18min | Drama, Romance, War | 29 September 1974 (USA)

Storyline:

A small town in the south-west of France, summer of 1944. Having failed to join the resistance, the 18 year old Lucien Lacombe, whose father is a prisoner in Germany and whose mother dates her employer, works for the German police. He then meets France Horn, the daughter of a rich jewish tailor.

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Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987

Die Russen kommen 1987
1h 32min | Drama, War | 4 December 1987 (East Germany)

Storyline:

Spring 1945. Günter, a 15-year-old boy in a small Baltic Sea resort, still believes in the final victory. He is the fastest in the hunt for an escaped foreign worker. He confronts him, who is then shot by the village policeman. Günter proudly accepts the Iron Cross II and volunteers for the front, even though his father has already died. Neither the mother nor the teacher can stop him. During his first deployment, he was attacked by Soviet soldiers, but was able to flee home. Shortly after the Soviet Army occupied the place, Günter was arrested for the murder of the foreign worker. He doesn’t reveal the real killer, but the case is solved. And when the policeman tries to force Günter’s silence, he refuses to cover up the murderer. All of these events bring him close to madness.

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