Il Grande Attacco (1978)
Genre: War / Drama
Duration: 107 minuten (Duitse versie) / 101 minuten (Duitse versie) / 90 minuten (Amerikaanse versie)
Alternative titles: Battle Force / The Battle of the Mareth Line / Die Große Offensive / The Biggest Battle
Country:
Italy / West Germany / Yugoslavia
Directed by: Umberto Lenzi
Stars: Henry Fonda, Stacy Keach and Samantha Eggar
IMDb score:
4,7 (665)
Releasedate: 7 February 1978
Il Grande Attacco plot
"The most awesome battle ever seen!"
During the Berlin Games in 1936, an American general (Fonda), an English correspondent (John Huston), a Jewish actress (Eggar) and a German major (Keach) meet. When the war starts we see it from their perspective. Fonda, Huston and Keach meet in North Africa, where Fonda tries to contact his son on the battlefield. Keach is killed, leaving behind his Jewish bride Eggar, and Huston is all over the place to cover the scenes.
Actors and actresses
Lt. Kurt Zimmer
Annelise Ackermann
Capitano Martin Scott
Sean O'Hara
Maggiore Mannfred Roland
Lt. John Foster
Lt. William McShane
Michael
Sybill Scott
Narratore
Reviews & comments
Quentin
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- 10218 messages
- 8595 votes
Once again, the same trick that Lenzi employed a year later in Contro 4 Bandiere, a shallow kaleidoscopic portrait of four disparate protagonists connected during World War II. Filled with reasonably spectacular action scenes largely taken from other films.
Henry Fonda surely wasn't on set for more than two days for his supporting role; he doesn't leave his office except for a single moment. And of course, the film is full of anachronisms; for instance, the desert was apparently full of M113s during the war.
2.25*
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