D-Day decision in Normandy

Movie
German title	D-Day decision in Normandy
Original title	D-Day June 6, 1944
Country of production	Great Britain
original language	English
Publishing year	2004
length	90 minutes
Rod
Director	Richard Dale, ; Kim Bour, ; Pamela Gordon, ; Sally Weale
script	Andrew Bampfield
production	Tim Bradley
music	Alan Parker
camera	Paul Francis Jenkins
cut	Peter Parnham
occupation
	Ian Holm : Narrator; David Lyon: General Dwight D. Eisenhower ; Tracey Moore: Kay Summersby; Graham McTavish : Gr. Capt. James Stagg; Albert Welling: Field Marshal Erwin Rommel ; Tim Bentinck : General Hans Speidel ;

D-Day - Decision in Normandy (original title: D-Day June 6, 1944 ) is a documentary feature film on the British television broadcaster BBC from 2004 about the invasion of Normandy in 1944. The German television broadcaster ProSieben participated in the financing of the documentation and aired it on June 5, 2004 on the 60th anniversary of the Normandy landing.

action

The film documents the events of Operation Neptune : the planning, the training and its secrecy, as well as sub-operations and the German situation during the so-called D-Day .

criticism

“The information content of the production is convincing - not even the failed dress rehearsal ' Tiger ' is left out - but the presentation is disappointing. The statements of the contemporary witnesses are illustrated with weak play scenes, and in between, director Richard Dale too often relies on meaningful glances. The result was a mixture that neither works as a documentary nor as a war film. "

- TV movie

"On the occasion of the 60th anniversary, the lavishly produced documentary feature film by the BBC recalls the events from multiple perspectives and sets a monument to the soldiers."

- Lexicon of international film

Individual evidence

^ D-Day - Decision in Normandy in the film archive of TV Spielfilm . Retrieved July 26, 2009.
^ D-Day Decision in Normandy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed July 26, 2009 .

Web links

D-Day - Decision in Normandy in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Description on the website of BBC Germany
Christian Buß : Invasion in prime time in the daily newspaper , June 2, 2004
Description of DVD output

[1] D-Day - Decision in Normandy in the film archive of TV Spielfilm . Retrieved July 26, 2009.

[2] D-Day Decision in Normandy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film Service , accessed July 26, 2009 .