Cross of Iron (Peckinpah, 1977): Prince Charles Cinema, 8.45pm
This film also screens on July 31st. Full details here.
Time Out review:
Sam Peckinpah's only war film, based on a novel by Willi Heinrich, displays
his familiar preoccupation with the individual confronted by events
beyond his control. Dealing with a German platoon involved in the 1943
retreat on the Russian front, the film reveals a special feeling for the
universalities of war: lives in the balance, the single-suppression of
emotion. Sombre and claustrophobic photography, an intelligent script,
and Peckinpah's clear understanding of a working platoon of men, are all
far removed from the monotonous simplicity of most big-budget war
films.
Chris Peachment
Here (and above) is the trailer.
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