The True Glory

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Movie
Original title The True Glory
Country of production UK , USA
original language English
Publishing year 1945
length 87 minutes
Rod
Director Garson Kanin ,
Carol Reed
script Paddy Chayefsky ,
Harry Brown ,
Frank Harvey ,
Gerald Kersh ,
Saul Levitt ,
Arthur Macrae ,
Eric Maschwitz ,
Jenny Nicholson ,
Guy Trosper ,
Peter Ustinov
music William Alwyn
camera Russ Meyer
cut Robert Carrick ,
Bob Clarke ,
Jerry Cowan ,
Robert Verrell

The True Glory is a documentary from 1945 that was made in US-British co-production.

action

Filming a wren in the Atlantic Battle Operations Room at Derby House, Liverpool in January 1945

The film describes the preparations for the Allied invasion of Normandy . While American officers plan the landing, American workers are working on ships and shipping materials to England. For this purpose, interviews are conducted with civilians and soldiers who talk about the effects of the war. Recruits are shown during their training.

After the coordination of the landing plans by the American commander Dwight D. Eisenhower , the landing in Normandy begins. Film scenes with wounded and dead soldiers on Omaha Beach are shown. Interviews with the wounded follow.

Improvised harbors are built to facilitate the landing of further Allied troops. On June 25, 1944, the French city of Cherbourg is captured. Caen and Saint-Lô are the other destinations. The US troops are celebrated as liberators by the population.

The life of the French in Paris under German occupation is shown. The efforts of the French resistance movement are also described. This is followed by footage of the arrival of General Charles de Gaulle and his free troops in Paris. Soldiers talk about their experiences in combat with the Germans and their experiences with German prisoners of war.

The Allied heads of state meet in Yalta for a conference. US troops cross the Rhine near Remagen . American prisoners of war are released and informed of the death of their President Franklin D. Roosevelt . The Bergen-Belsen concentration camp is liberated. Recordings of the atrocities are published.

The fighting ended on May 9, 1945, and all of Germany was occupied by Allied troops.

Awards

In 1946 the film was awarded an Oscar in the category Best Documentary . The New York Film Critics Circle honored the film with a special award. The National Board of Review awarded the film the NBR Award in the Best Picture category .

background

The film was produced by the United States Office of War Information and the UK Department of Information and distributed by Columbia Pictures . The premiere took place on August 27, 1945 in Great Britain and on October 4, 1945 in the USA.

According to a February 5, 2008 report by the New York Sun , the footage was filmed by 1,400 cameramen. 32 of them were killed, 101 wounded, and 16 are missing.

The film is in the public domain and can be viewed in the Internet Archive . The title comes from a quote from Sir Francis Drake : “There must be a beginning of any great matter, but the continuing unto the end until it be thoroughly finished yields the True Glory.” (Eng .: Every great thing requires a beginning, but continuing to the end, to the laborious completion, brings true glory.).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Article in the New York Sun (Engl.)
  2. ^ The film in the Internet Archive