The Greatest Battle (1978)

Original title

Il grande attacco

Directed by

Umberto Lenzi

Genre

drama film, action film, war film

Country

Germany, Italy

Runtime

1h 40m

Rated

PG

Rating

4.7 of 10 from 16 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of German and Allied civilians and soldiers experience the early years of World War II. Their personal stories converge at the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia.

epicgrittylarge-scaleseriousdramaticfast-pacedintense

What happens

The Greatest Battle (Italian: Il grande attacco, lit. 'The Great Attack', also released as The Biggest Battle and Battle Force) is a 1978 Euro War film co-written and directed by Umberto Lenzi and starring an all-star ensemble cast, including Giuliano Gemma, Helmut Berger, Stacy Keach, Ray Lovelock, Samantha Eggar, Henry Fonda, Ida Galli and John Huston. The Italian-West German-Yugoslavian co-production was produced by Mino Loy and Luciano Martino for Titanus. The plot centers on a group of German and Allied nationals throughout the early years of World War II, including British commando Captain Martin Scott (Gemma), American General Harold Foster (Fonda) and his son John (Lovelock), Jewish actress Annelise Ackermann (Eggar), war correspondent Sean O'Hara (Huston) and two very different German lieutenants, Kurt Zimmer and Manfred Roland (Berger and Keach). The film climaxes in a recreation of the Battle of the Mareth Line in Tunisia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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