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Title: disappointed!
Review: I had been aware of this movie for quite awhile and was happy to finally get a copy on DVD. Perhaps because of the poor dubbing, this was little better than the many "spaghetti" war films I have in my collection. While there appears to be a great effort on the producers' part to craft an epic war movie, there is an abysmal lack of contiuity and context. The technical aspects are pretty well executed, with proper uniforms and weapons. Also there are "Tiger" tank mock-ups based on T-34 chassis as seen in Kelly's Heroes. And those attacking planes(Sokos maybe?) do resemble FW 190s at first glance, all of which make this film all the more disappointing. Some great actors seem wasted, and even the legendary Bernard Herman was off his game with his uncharacteristically bland musical score. I'd like to see it remastered, and with proper subtitles so that the dialogue would be in the respective languages. Perhaps then this film will earn the "epic" description some have chosen to apply to it.
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