New WWII movie "The forgotten soldier"

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Finally after 5 years of rumor the movie "The Forgotten Soldier" is officially announced.
It is based on the memoirs of a french soldier "Guy Sajer" who was in the german army on the eastern front.One of the best memoirs you will ever read!
He was in constant combat from the fall of 42 to the bitter end.He fought with the elite Grossdeutshland division.
When I first read this book about 25 years ago I was hoping it would be turned into a movie.Can't wait!

The screen play is already written.
It should be out by 2010.

More info here:

http://www.screendaily.com/ScreenDa...ier&strCallingPage=ScreenDailySearchSite.aspx
 
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So there I am, out in winter weather and feeling pitiful about it. Then I consider how much worse it could suck: I'm wearing winter-weight clothes, I have a belly full of hot food, I have a warm place to retreat to periodically, i am louse-free (last I checked) and no Ivan is trying to shoot me.

I always feel warmer after thinking about Sajer's book. Thankful, too.
 
There will be plenty of milsurps.
Wait till you see private Hals firing a FA MG 42 from the hip,and Sgt wiener using a russian PPSh -41 in close combat.
 
There are endless stories which could be told from the eastern front of WW2, I'm surprised that there have been so few movies - considering it was the largest land war in human history. I'll be buying this book, and looking forward to the movie.
 
Hadrianus said:
There are endless stories which could be told from the eastern front of WW2, I'm surprised that there have been so few movies - considering it was the largest land war in human history. I'll be buying this book, and looking forward to the movie.
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Agreed, a huge event in the 20th century in terms of human conflict (and lord knows, Hollywood loves conflict :D ). Plenty of material for all kinds of interesting movies.

All of the half dozen autobiographical accounts of the Eastern Front that I have read would make great movies.

Can't wait to see this one!
 
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How much you want to bet that over half the movie is about the girl he meets 2/3's of the way through the book and then never sees again.

If Hollywood is involved, it's probably a sure thing.
 
Hadrianus said:
There are endless stories which could be told from the eastern front of WW2, I'm surprised that there have been so few movies - considering it was the largest land war in human history. I'll be buying this book, and looking forward to the movie.
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I have been watched a lot of soviets movies in my childhood about Eastern front
 
Doug Nash was involved in the screenplay and is an accomplished historian. His most acclaimed work is "Hell's Gate" which is a superb account of the Cherkassy/Korsun pocket in 1944.
 
steve1973 said:
Agreed, a huge event in the 20th century in terms of human conflict (and lord knows, Hollywood loves conflict :D ). Plenty of material for all kinds of interesting movies.

All of the half dozen autobiographical accounts of the Eastern Front that I have read would make great movies.

Can't wait to see this one!
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The problem is Hollywood caters to an audience that thinks D-Day was the event that got the United States going to rescue the world and win the war. If you ask around in the next party you're at, or gathering of folks not as interested as you are...I'm betting many had even forgotten there was an Eastern Front, other than Stalingrad (of course, Enemy at the Gates is responsible for that).
 
The single most important idea that people don't know is the simple fact that over 2/3 of the german army was on the Eastern front.

It made alot of the Western front look like a picnic in scope. People just don't realize this. The Germans alone gave way more of their machine to fighting the dreaded communist bear. Most hoped the west would help them fight Russia after they surrendered. With hollywood and crazy stupid movies like U571 among other garbage history everyone seems to think DDAY was teh end all be all of ww2 and america saved teh world and cracked the german code. Ive met canadians who seem to think our own purpose in that war was to single handedly fight SS becuase of a book they read on Caen and how Hitler had personal monetary rewards for killing Canadian soldiers we were so feared. It just goes on and on...


Then you have all these people claiming to have won the war. Sure you all played a part, but you sure as hell didnt single handedly save the world. Actually Ill do so far as to challenge any western front ally to lay claim to that title, of whom Ive met many, of many nations.
 
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