Rent Battle Over Normandy (2011)
1.8 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 42min
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- Synopsis:
Klaus Muller is a battle-hardened World War II veteran. Injured during a life-and-death tank battle on the Russian Front, he is hospitalized and transferred to Normandy to serve under Field Marshal Rommel. Amid the constant Allied attacks and waves of aerial bombing, he discovers his beloved Klaudia, a field nurse, is stationed nearby. Now, not only must he survive another hellish episode on the front line, but he must risk everything by abandoning his duties to make sure Klaudia makes it out alive. Imprisoned by the Gestapo on the very dawn of D-Day, he is able to use the biggest invasion of World War II as cover for a daring escape. But as the Allies attack from the beaches and the air, Muller becomes caught in the midst of the advancing American forces. Can he find a way to escape, or will this prove to be his final battle? - Actors:
- Tino Struckmann, Damian Chapa, Jack Dimich, Claudia Crawford, Frank Abbott, D. Kent Allen, Gary Amachen, Bucky Anderson, Mark Anderson, Mel Bain, Gregory Bakula, Troy Baldwin, John s Barnett, Brad Baronowski, John Beale
- Directors:
- Tino Struckmann
- Producers:
- David Effler, Mickel Kobeck, Vito Lapiccola, Costanza Michael, Milo Popp, Caspar von Winterfeldt
- Writers:
- Vito Lapiccola, Tino Struckmann
- Studio:
- Kaleidoscope Home Ent.
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama
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Low budget US World War II film - Battle Over Normandy review by PV
OK so on the credits one can see the same guy (a US TV actor) wrote, directed and stars in this low budget film which no doubt he and the many extras (who look rather well-fed) paid for too.
I very much respect low-budget films and those who make them. It's all very well for Hollywood stars to make movies costing millions; others have to use what they have imaginatively, and this film does just that. I am not technical but the film stock used lacks the glass of the high budget films from Hollywood.
The film depicts the same scene as at the start Saving Private Ryan at a fraction of the cost. The first 15 mins of that movie are classic of course -the rest of it meanders. And as annoying as that film, no mention of the British or Canadians who landed on Normandy beaches in June 44 and died there in multitudes. or that Britain stood alone for 2 years before the US - and the USSR - joined in the war against Germany. Hey ho.
Some wooden acting esp from the female interest. I suspect lots of relatives and friends got cast here.
But it correctly shows how many Germans knew the war was lost and also how many Russians/Ukrainians and Nazi-sympathisers from the USSR and central Asia fought for the Germans - most 'German' soldiers defending the beaches of Normandy in June 1944 and shooting Allied soldiers were NOT German. Most were from USSR, Ukraine and central Asia. US solidres report being surprised taking soldiers who 'looked Chinese' prisoner - those high central Asian cheekbones...
3 stars./ 2 for the film and 1 for effort.
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