The Longest Day
(1962)
★ 7.6 IMDb · 1,051 votes
Year: 1962
Runtime: 178 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Ken Annakin, Бернхард Викки, Andrew Marton
Cast: Джон Уэйн, Роберт Митчем, Генри Фонда, Richard Burton, Шон Коннери, Leslie Phillips, Robert Ryan, Paul Anka, Wolfgang Büttner, Mel Ferrer
Plot
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
In 1944, the U.S. Army and Allied forces plan a huge invasion landing in Normandy, France. Despite bad weather, General Dwight D. Eisenhower gives the okay and the Allies land at Normandy. General Norma Cota travels with his men onto Omaha Beach. With much effort, and lost life, they get off the beach, traveling deep into French territory. The German military, due to arrogance, ignorance and a sleeping Adolf Hitler, delay their response to the Allied landing, with crippling results.