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

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.

absurdistsatiricalwryepisodicdeadpananti-warquirky

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)

Trailer

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