Reżyseria:
Gregory HoblitScenariusz:
Jonas McCordZdjęcia:
Janusz KamińskiMuzyka:
John DebneyObsada:
Christien Anholt, Andre Braugher, Dan Futterman, Josh Lucas, Clive Owen, Sophie Ward, Laura Linney, Paul Guilfoyle, Dana Ivey, Lorraine Toussaint (więcej)Opisy(1)
The titular year refers to the class of 1861, and the implied school is the venerable West Point Academy. This made-for-television drama centers on one of that classes most illustrious students, George Armstrong Custer, and tells how the Civil War affected his friendship with two classmates, one who supported the Union and the other a staunch believer in the Confederate cause. Custer himself stood between, wrestling with his own convictions. (oficjalny tekst dystrybutora)
(więcej)Recenzje (1)
Some people are fooled by the distributor's text and expect epic battles, they get bored, they don't understand why the director intersperses the final battle with a birth scene, and since they don't know much about the North-South war, they inevitably don't learn much either. I saw Class of '61 definitely as strong film by TV standards, and while it deals with the old familiar idea of the pointlessness of war, with friends and relatives shooting at each other, it deals with it perfectly. The screenplay surprised me by how balanced it is and doesn't favor either side (although for a while it seemed to me that it preferred the Southerners), Janusz Kaminski's excellent cinematography was a delight for the eyes as always, and John Debney's soundtrack, unheard to this day, played in my ears. The aforementioned battle had everything it was supposed to have, and as for the excellent slave storyline, I wouldn't put much stock in Steven Spielberg having a hand in how engaging it was.
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