Derek Winnert

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Edge of Darkness **** (1943, Errol Flynn, Ann Sheridan, Walter Huston, Judith Anderson, Ruth Gordon, Nancy Coleman, John Beal, Helmut Dantine) – Classic Movie Review 4,752

Errol Flynn stars as Gunnar Brogge, the leader of the Trollness Norwegian underground, in the stirringly done 1943 patriotic wartime film Edge of Darkness. Warner Bros’ World War Two patriotic wartime toast to the brave […]

Dec, 05

The Foreman Went to France **** (1942, Tommy Trinder, Constance Cummings, Clifford Evans, Robert Morley, Gordon Jackson, Ernest Milton, Francis L Sullivan, Mervyn Johns, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 4684

Ealing Studios’s popular 1942 film is an adroit mixture of comedy, wartime adventure, spy story and semi-documentary authenticity, imaginatively realised by director Charles Frend. Informative and morale-boosting as well as entertaining, it was made with […]

Nov, 23

Europa Europa **** (1990, Marco Hofschneider, René Hofschneider, Julie Delpy, Solomon Perel) – Classic Movie Review 4668

Marco Hofschneider’s acting career started unexpectedly when he was cast to play the lead in writer-director Agnieszka Holland’s exciting, rousing and highly emotional 1990 true-life war drama. It was the Golden Globe winner for Best Foreign Language […]

Nov, 20

Francofonia ***½ (2015, Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath, Vincent Nemeth, Johanna Korthals Altes, Aleksandr Sokurov) – Movie Review

Russian writer-director Aleksandr Sokurov’s self-consciously eccentric 2015 mix of documentary and drama is provocative and fascinating. Sometimes, it is well worth trying something out of your usual comfort zone. Sokurov fills the screen with some great ideas […]

Nov, 09

Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens] ***** (1935, Adolf Hitler, Hermann Göring, Martin Bormann, Joseph Goebbels, Rudolf Hess, Heinrich Himmler, Reinhard Heydrich) – Classic Movie Review 4476

‘Heil! Heil! Heil!’ Producer-writer-director Leni Riefenstahl’s legendary infamous 1935 Nazi film of the Third Reich’s 1934 Nazi Party Rally in Nuremberg, Germany, Triumph of the Will [Triumph des Willens], is astonishing as documentary and frightening […]

Oct, 16

Kanal ***** (1957, Teresa Izewska, Tadeusz Janczar, Wienczyslaw Glinski, Emil Kariewicz) – Classic Movie Review 4471

In Andrzej Wajda’s forceful 1957 Polish film Kanal, which is based on an actual incident, resistance fighter patriots use Warsaw’s sewer system (‘kanal’) to try to escape German soldiers in 1944, during the Warsaw Uprising […]

Oct, 10

Anthropoid **½ (2016, Cillian Murphy, Jamie Dornan, Brian Caspe, Toby Jones, Karel Hermánek Jr, Bill Milner, Charlotte Le Bon) – Movie Review

Well meaning and largely convincing but depressing and rather disappointing film of the true story of Operation Anthropoid, the WWII mission to assassinate top Nazi SS General Reinhard Heydrich, leader of occupying Nazi forces in […]

Sep, 14

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