The 7th Dawn (1964)
Gênero : Aventura, Drama, Guerra
Runtime : 2H 3M
Director : Lewis Gilbert
Escritor : Karl Tunberg
Sinopse
Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Akseli Koskela returns from prison and tries to learn living again. He's not allowed to take part in politics anymore, but he sees a lot of injustice around him. He raises a family with his wife Elina while another war is around the corner...
Na Seoul colonial de 1938, dois homens distintos possuem um sentimento forte de rivalidade desde quando eram jovens. Joon-sik é um coreano que sonha em seguir os passos do maratonista olímpico Sohn Kee-chung. Tatsuo é um grande maratonista japonês, viveu com Joon-sik, já que asua família trabalhava para Tatsuo como servos. Eles cresceram como rivais representando seus respectivos países.
Englishmen fighting Nazis in Africa discover an exotic mystery woman living among the natives and enlist her aid in overcoming the Germans.
A idealistic shipyard worker interests a beautiful Hollywood star in staging a musical tribute to the war industry, but they disagree on some important issues.
The film looks through the eyes of the German offense during World War II, specifically a German tank crew who, after losing a battle, struggle to get home.
A young girl's brother comes home from the army, and brings an army buddy with him. The three of them go out that night to celebrate, and after much drinking has been done, the brother's friend rapes the sister. After the two men have gone back, the girl finds that she's pregnant--and discovers that her parents don't blame the soldier, but blame her.
Após a invasão dos Aliados na Itália, a cidade de San Pietro, no vale do rio Liri, se torna um marco dos efeitos brutais do combate, tanto para soldados como civis. A cidade, localizada em uma colina, foi tomada pelo exército americano que tentava impedir o avanço dos alemães durante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Só que os alemães estavam articulados e bem escondidos nas trincheiras, o que fez com que essa batalha ocasionasse uma baixa de mais de mil homens do exército americano. A equipe do diretor John Huston chegou após o fim do combate, mas a encenação da batalha impressiona por seu realismo.
A story of of the captain of an oil tanker during World War II, Captain Bart Manson, who rescues Katherine Hall when her ship is sunk by a German U-boat.
The fainthearted cigar trader Ducker keeps himself quiet during World War II. That changes when parachutist Dorbeck lands in his backyard. It turns out the parachutist bears a remarkable resemblance to Ducker. Ducker follows Dorbeck blindly, becomes involved in the Dutch resistance and soon starts killing people. When he escapes through German lines to the freed South Netherlands, no one has ever heard of Dorbeck.
During the second world war law student Hannie Schaft is a member of the Dutch resistance movement.
When a Russian doctor (Patrizia Gori) falls foul of the Nazis, she finds herself imprisoned at Fort Stilberg, a luxury brothel for German top brass where the women are overseen by sadistic SS officer Helga Hortz (Jacqueline Laurent). The doctor's medical skills bring her to the attention of Nazi Lieutenant Erik Mueller (Jack Taylor), who saves the lovely lady from becoming one of the establishment's 'hostesses' by assigning her to the infirmary.
Nita, a divorced mother of two boys, is stuck working as a telephone operator in a small Texas town in World War II. Her friendship with a sailor on leave causes tongues to wag in town.
When the planes bombed a Slovene town, a Slovene boy and a German girl set on a journey towards the valley, in which there is no war. On their way a black American pilot, who jumped of a shoot-down plane, joins them. Although American planes have killed the boy's parents, he accepts the pilot with enthusiasm. The children communicate with him in German and the valley of peace seems like the last paradise place of refuge. The Slovene boy, the German girl, and the American pilot represent a symbolic triangle of peace in this adventure happening in the middle of the War of Liberation.
A celebrated New York cabbie is pressed into service for a perilous journey through World War II China.
Jack Hardy is the sole survivor of a mysterious submarine disaster in World War II. Now, in 1981, the ill-fated submarine Scorpion has resurfaced, miraculously intact. Naval Intelligence need Hardy's expertise to retrace the course and mission that led to her original disappearance. But what's waiting for them under the grey waters of the Baltic Sea turns out to be much worse than the Russian submarines they're expecting. Wherever Scorpion has been all this time, it's brought some very bad luck back with it...
At the end of World War Two, Polish people move to the western lands vacated by Germans. But some ruthless profiteers pose as government representatives and intend to make off with loot from a deserted town they took over. One honest man stands up against them because he believes these goods belong to the people.
In 1943, group of Croatian soldiers overtake a strategically important point in western Bosnia with a goal to destroy a group of communist partisans. On the way they met some supernatural phenomena, and the action itself went very badly because the partisans ambushed them. The main character Martin inherits silver cigarette case from a dying soldier. This act connects to the story in 1993 when we meet Martins grandson Tomo. He is one of six soldiers of the Croatian army who have come to the same place in Bosnia to meet the same phenomena and similar fate.
Bill Forrester é um grande piloto de guerra em 1945, num acampamento na Ásia, na Birmânia, onde está um calor infernal. Ele é ágil, duro e cria muito desconforto no acampamento entre os outros oficiais pelo seu estilo independente, violento e por suas crises intempestivas. Ele realmente estava muito estressado. Quando um oficial pensa em pedir a transferência dele, um médico resolve levar o piloto para conhecer as comunidades na Birmânia, na tentativa de humanizá-lo um pouco.
The film begins in a WW II training depot of a British Guards armoured regiment where recruits from many walks of life learn to survive the strict discipline and training together before going into battle in tanks. There is a cameo appearance by the real Sgt. Major Brittain who was famous in the British guards regiments.