Battle for Anzio

Movie
German title	Battle for Anzio
Original title	Lo sbarco di Anzio
Country of production	United States , Italy
original language	English , Italian
Publishing year	1968
length	116 minutes
Age rating	FSK 16
Rod
Director	Edward Dmytryk , Duilio Coletti
script	Harry Craig
production	Dino De Laurentiis
music	Riz Ortolani
camera	Giuseppe Rotunno
cut	Alberto Gallitti , Peter Taylor
occupation
Robert Mitchum : Dick Ennis Peter Falk : Corporal Rabinoff Robert Ryan : General Carson Arthur Kennedy : General Lesly Earl Holliman : Sergeant Vocalist Reni Santoni : Movie Mark Damon : Richardson Anthony Steel : General Marsh Patrick Magee : General Starkey Giancarlo Giannini : Cellini Wolfgang Preiss : Field Marshal Kesselring Arthur Franz : General Howard Wayde Preston : Hendricks

Battle for Anzio (alternative title: Anzio, original title: Lo sbarco di Anzio ) is an American - Italian war film from 1968 . The directors Edward Dmytryk and Duilio Coletti directed a film based on the real landing of the Allied troops at Anzio ( Operation Shingle ). The script is based on a novel by Wynford Vaughan-Thomas. The German premiere was on September 3, 1968.

action

Allied troops landed at Anzio on January 22nd, 1944 . The soldiers are accompanied by the cynical war correspondent Dick Ennis. After landing, Ennis drives to Rome with the Ranger Movie and Corporal Rabinoff . You see neither on the way nor in the city itself German soldiers. They inform the commander of the invading forces, General Lesly, who refuses to advance. He fears that the Germans are in an ambush. Lesly's hesitation helps the Germans form their lines of defense. This results in heavy losses among the Allies if the village is attacked.

Ennis, Movie, Rabinoff and five other soldiers escape. In their escape they get behind enemy lines. They find shelter with an Italian woman and her daughter. The men find out that the bridgehead is surrounded. You are trying to break through the enemy lines to get to Anzio. Only Ennis, Movie, and Sergeant Vocalist arrive and inform Lesly.

The fighting that followed lasted four months before the Allies were able to break through the German lines and enter Rome victoriously. General Carson behaves as a war hero, which Ennis disillusioned. He deplores the commanders' incompetence, which has led to the large number of dead and wounded soldiers.

background

The film was shot in Italy. In the United States, the film grossed approximately $ 1.4 million. In a minor supporting role, Dante Maggio was used as a peddler. Richard Arlen can be seen as Captain Gannon in an unmentioned small appearance .

Reviews

The lexicon of international film said, "Dmytryk's experienced directing aims [...] not at documentary, but at - sometimes impressive - entertainment". Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times praised the film as a "good and intelligent war film", "with an unusual clarity in the depiction of military strategies".

The film received negative reviews from the industry journal Variety , which criticized the "wooden representation, the uninspired direction and the boring pace".

Web links

• Anzio in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Battle for Anzio at Rotten Tomatoes (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ See Business on imdb.com
2. ↑ Battle of Anzio. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed June 2, 2019 .  
3. ↑ Roger Ebert : Anzio . In: Chicago Sun-Times , June 27, 1968.
4. ↑ See Anzio . In: Variety , 1968.