The Big Red One
(1980)
★ 6.7 IMDb · 354 votes
Year: 1980
Runtime: 113 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Samuel Fuller
Cast: Ли Марвин, Марк Хэмилл, Роберт Кэррадайн, Бобби Ди Чикко, Kelly Ward, Стефан Одран, Siegfried Rauch, Serge Marquand, Charles Macaulay, Alain Doutey
Plot
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
The story of a hardened army sergeant and four of his men, from their first fight at the Kasserine Pass after the invasion of North Africa through to the invasion of Sicily, D-Day, the Hürtgen forest and the liberation of a concentration camp at the end of the war. As the five of them fight - and survive to fight yet again in the next battle - new recruits joining the squad are swatted down by the enemy on a regular basis. The four privates are naturally reluctant to get to know any of the new recruits joining the squad, who become just a series of nameless faces.