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Genres:
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Drama /
Musical /
Romance /
War /
Music
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Director:
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Lewis Milestone
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Actors:
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Dean Jagger,
Ann Harding,
Erich von Stroheim,
Eric Roberts,
Anne Baxter,
Dana Andrews,
Walter Huston,
Walter Brennan,
Jane Withers,
Farley Granger
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Duration:
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108 min.
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Rating:
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(6.1/10)90.5
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Plot Summary:
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In a peaceful Ukrainian village, the school year is just ending in June 1941. Five adolescent friends set antiquated for a walking trip to Kiev, but their travels are brutally interrupted when they are suddenly attacked by German planes, in the first of the Nazi assault on the Soviet Union. When the village itself is attacked and occupied, most of the men make a clean getaway to the hills to form a guerrilla module. The others resist the Nazis as swell as possible, but in good time the village is placed out of sight the wield authority of a Nazi doctor who begins using the town's children as... a source of uniform blood transfusions on wounded German soldiers. Temporarily, the feel put down club of young persons tries desperately to take a deliver of firearms to the guerrillas.
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The North Star
When it comes to the great war films, Lewis Milestone's All Inactive On The Western Front regularly tops the list. However, presupposed what it contributed to the US battle struggle, an argument could be made after Milestone's less celebrated The North Star being a more important visualize. At the habits the film was made, 1943, it was becoming increasingly apparent that, if America and her allies were to triumph to the ground Nazi Germany, they were present to induce to rely on the Russians. But what was John Q Citizen to make of the vodka-swilling, communism embracing Russkies? It is hoped a film like The North Star would ornament that not only were Mother Russia's children much like Uncle Sam's but they also shared similar dreams, qualities and objectives. ...
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