How I Won the War (1967)
- Directed by
- Richard Lester
- Genre
- drama film, comedy film, black comedy film
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Runtime
- 1h 46m
- Rated
- NR
- Rating
- 5.6 of 10 from 38 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A British officer leads his misfit troop through World War II with absurdly misplaced confidence. The film shows their bumbling misadventures across North Africa and Europe in a comic and cynical light.
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What happens
How I Won the War is a 1967 British black comedy film directed and produced by Richard Lester and starring Michael Crawford, Jack MacGowran, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague, and John Lennon in his only non-musical acting role. The screenplay was by Charles Wood based on the 1963 novel of the same name by Patrick Ryan. The film uses a variety of styles such as vignettes, straight-to-camera, and docu-drama to tell the tale of the fictional 3rd Troop, the 4th Musketeers and their misadventures through the Second World War. The screenplay takes a comic and absurdist attitude towards the conflict through the Western Desert Campaign in mid-late 1942 to the crossing of the last intact bridge on the Rhine at Remagen in early 1945. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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