The Winners (1963)
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | The winners |
| Original title | The Victors |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English , French , German , Italian , Russian |
| Publishing year | 1963 |
| length | 175/156 (abridged version) minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 16 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Carl Foreman |
| script | Carl Foreman |
| production | Carl Foreman |
| music | Sol Kaplan |
| camera | Christopher Challis |
| cut | Alan Osbiston |
| occupation | |
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Die Sieger (Original title: The Victors ) is a star-studded American war film from 1963, which shows numerous authentic newsreel reports and was the only directorial work by screenwriter Carl Foreman . The novel The Human Kind by Alexander Baron served as a literary model .
action
The US Corporals Trower and Chase, Sergeant Craig and other US forces stationed in England during World War II are sent to Italy for combat operations . After conquering a small town there, GI Baker briefly finds happiness in the arms of the local Maria, who has received no news from her war-fighting husband for several months.
The troops are then ordered to France , where Craig gets involved with a French woman after landing in Normandy . Meanwhile, Chase is ensnared by the wealthy Magda, who tries to get him to leave the army to help her with profitable black market deals . But Chase returns to the front, where he injures his leg, while Trower falls in Belgium in love with the opportunistic violinist Regine, who wanders through nightclubs, temporarily works as a prostitute and ultimately leaves Trower for someone else.
More disillusioning combat missions and romantic encounters follow. In the end, Craig finds himself in the hospital with a serious head injury, while Chase continues to suffer from his leg injury. Trower now lives in the Soviet occupation zone of Berlin , where he lives with the young German Helga. One evening he got into an argument with a drunken Soviet soldier, which ended in a knife fight in which both were killed.
background
Screenwriter Carl Foreman, who received an Oscar for Die Brücke am Kwai in 1958 , was the only time in his career as a director for the war drama Die Sieger , which spanned the years 1942 to 1946 and addresses the demoralization of the winners and the vanquished .
The shooting took place in France , Sweden , the Italian Salerno , in Tilbury , Essex , and in the English Shepperton Studios instead. The world premiere took place on November 18, 1963 in London . In Germany the film was released on February 20, 1964.
Reviews
"Some remarkable details are lost in the spectacular distortions of the sometimes lurid, sometimes melodramatically tinted film," judged the lexicon of international films . The conclusion of Cinema was: "Partly sensational, but with unforgettable scenes."
Awards
In 1964, Christopher Challis received a nomination for Best British Cinematographer for the British Film Academy Award . Supporting actor Peter Fonda was nominated for Best Young Actor at the Golden Globe Awards .
German version
| role | actor | Voice actor |
|---|---|---|
| Baker | Vince Edwards | Horst Naumann |
| Russian soldier | Albert Finney | Ernst Constantine |
| Trower | George Hamilton | Gerhart Lippert |
| Magda | Melina Mercouri | Mady Rahl |
| French | Jeanne Moreau | Rosemarie Fendel |
| Cpl. Chase | George Peppard | Michael Cramer |
| French lieutenant | Maurice Ronet | Helmo Kindermann |
| Maria | Rosanna Schiaffino | Rose-Marie Kirstein |
| Regine | Romy Schneider | Romy Schneider |
| Helga | Elke Sommer | Marianne Lutz |
| Sgt. Craig | Eli Wallach | Rolf Boysen |
| Eldridge | Michael Callan | Klaus Kindler |
| Weaver | Peter Fonda | Werner Uschkurat |
| Grogan | James Mitchum | Gernot Duda |
Web links
- The winners in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Pictures of the film on cinema.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The winner. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .
- ↑ cf. cinema.de
- ↑ The winner. In: synchronkartei.de. German synchronous index , accessed on September 20, 2018 .