John Hersey

Filmes

The Wall
Novel
A dramatic re-enactment of the Warsaw Ghetto Jewish uprising in April 1943 were 650 armed members of the Jewish Fighting Organization of Poland held off a 3,000 strong Nazi force in which only a handful of Jews survived. Tom Conti plays Dolek Berson, a Jewish smuggler who joins the resistance movement and is aided on the Aryan side of the wall by a former teacher named Regina Kowalski played by Rachel Roberts in her final role.
O Amante da Guerra
Novel
Buzz Rickson é um temerário piloto de bombardeiro da WW2, com um desejo de morte. Falhando em tudo que não seja voar, Rickson vive para as missões mais perigosas. Sua tripulação convive com este aspecto de sua personalidade só porque sabem que ele sempre os traz de volta vivos.
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A BAFTA award nominated documentary studying Hungarian refugee problems after the October 1956 revolution. Shot on the Austro-Hungarian frontier and in the refugee camp at Traiskirchen.
A Bell for Adano
Novel
Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He has to manage getting supplies into town without interfering with troop movements, all the while dealing with colorful citizens of the town. One of his quests is to replace the bell which orders the town's life.