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The Cranes Are Flying
Why this pick
Its wartime love story shares Sirk’s sense of private longing overwhelmed by history, while its fluid, lyrical images make separation and loss feel intensely immediate.
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MOVIE1958 2h 12m USA
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Ashes and Diamonds
Why this pick
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The Burmese Harp
Why this pick
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De laatste brug
Why this pick
Set on the collapsing Eastern Front, this anti-war drama similarly places empathy across enemy lines against a landscape of violence, exhaustion, and impossible choices.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Ernst Graeber is a German soldier stationed on the Eastern Front during the war's last days. He and fellow soldiers Steinbrenner and Hirschland are ordered to kill Russian civilians, but Hirschland commits suicide instead.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Liselotte Pulver
Elizabeth Kruse Graeber
Jock Mahoney
Immerman
Don DeFore
Hermann Boettcher
Dieter Borsche
Captain Rahe
Jim Hutton
Hirschland
Kurt Meisel
Heini
Clancy Cooper
Sauer
Alice Treff
Mrs. Langer