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16121612 (2012)
Dir. Vladimir Khotinenko
Feat. Pyotr Kislov
Bloated Russian 'historical' epic renders the 17th century civil war that ravaged the divided country as a Peter Jackson–esque battle fantasy.…
SuskindSuskind (2012)
Dir. Rudolf van den Berg
Feat. Karl Markovics, Jeroen Spitzenberger
A serious, respectful historical dramatisation of the deeds of Walter Sueskind, a Jewish industrialist in Amsterdam who used his leverage as an…
Bomber, TheBomber, The (Ballada o bombere (Ballad Of A Bomber)) (2011)
Dir. Vitaliy Vorobyov
Feat. Nikita Efremov, Ekaterina Astakhova, Aleksandr Davydov
Hum–drum war film – originally a television series – has a Russian aircraft crashing in Nazi occupied territory and the three…
Front Line, TheFront Line, The (2011)
Dir. Hun Jang
Feat. Ha-kyun Shin, Soo Go
Big battles clash with big themes in this sizable war epic set during the last days of the Korean war, where soldiers from both the North and South…
In DarknessIn Darkness (2011) Recommended
Dir. Agnieszka Holland
Feat. Robert Wieckiewicz, Agnieszka Grochowska, Kinga Preis
A stirring, endlessly suspenseful wartime resistance drama from dir. Agnieszka Holland (EUROPA, EUROPA), about the ordinary men and women surviving…
My WayMy Way (2011)
Dir. Kang Je-Gyu
Feat. Jang Dong-Gun, Joe Odagiri, Bingbing Fan
The director of BROTHERHOOD OF WAR raises the stakes with this louder, bloodier, more spectacular WWII epic, centred on the true story of rival…
WunderkinderWunderkinder (2011)
Dir. Markus Rosenmüller
Feat. Gedeon Burkhard, Natalia Avelon
A history of Germany in broad strokes, this heartrending coming–of–age tale charts the upheaval of WWII through the eyes of three child…
Rise and FallRise and Fall (Jew Suss) (2010)
Dir. Oskar Roehler
Feat. Tobias Moretti, Marina Gedeck, Moritz Bleibtreu
Wrenching true story about German actor Ferdinand Marian who, despite being married to a Jewish woman chose to play lead in the antisemitic…
Round Up, TheRound Up, The (La Rafle) (2010)
Dir. Rose Bosch
Feat. Jean Reno, Mélanie Laurent, Gad Elmaleh
A sensitive recreation of the tragic events and personal stories surrounding the Vel' d'Hiv Roundup of 1942, where some 13,000 French Jews were…
Army of Crime, TheArmy of Crime, The (2009)
Dir. Robert Guediguian
Feat. Simon Abkarian, Virginie Ledoyen
Part of a recent wave of prestigious WWII resistence dramas, this one reconstructs events around a group of Paris–based resistance fighters,…

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