10thzodiac
02-04-07, 05:19 PM
Joyeux Noël
--------------Merry Christmas----------------
Christmas Eve 1914 WW I
Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film 2006 (more) (http://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/awards/title/tt0424205/awards)
"Tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by the Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I"
Plot Outline: On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.
Quotes:
French Student: [First lines] They call out for us. They need our help. We must save them, the people of Alsace-Lorraine.
British Student: We must destroy the Hun. Every single one of them, the women too, so they don't rise back again.
German Student: We have a new enemy. A dangerous enemy that lies across the sea. England.
10thz - I took a chance and rented this movie at blockbuster, the beginning was slow, but as the story progressed the beginning was appropriate and story moving. If this story is true as the director claims, its gotta be one of the best unbelievable stories ever told !
Fortunately the Germans, French and Scott's speak English considerably throughout the movie, when they don't there is English sub-titles. The Germans and French spoke better English than the Scottish http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/06.gif
Pierre-25 (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0233641/comments) <SMALL>from Montreal, Canada says:</SMALL>
"This very touching story about a true occurrence during the first Christmas of the Great War is very moving. Although the truce was not a generalized event, it did happen in quite a few areas all along the front line. It was the only moment of sanity in an otherwise gruesome experience in futility. Twenty years later, these same countries would be at it again.Karl Marx said that wars are awful events pitting ordinary people (proletariats) one against another for the benefit of the wealthy, the powerful, the aristocrats. This aspect is depicted very well in this movie. I would just like to add a footnote: Alfred Anderson, the last survivor of the Christmas Truce of 1914 died November 21th, 2005 at a nursing home in his native Scotland. He was 109 years old. Lest we forget."
"Two Thumbs Up" - Ebert & Roeper
10thz http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif
--------------Merry Christmas----------------
Christmas Eve 1914 WW I
Academy Award, Golden Globe and BAFTA nominee for Best Foreign Film 2006 (more) (http://www.imdb.com/rg/title-tease/awards/title/tt0424205/awards)
"Tells the true-life story of the spontaneous Christmas Eve truce declared by the Scottish, French and German troops in the trenches of World War I"
Plot Outline: On Christmas Eve during world War I, the Germans, French, and Scottish are trying to make peace, so they bury their dead and play football.
Quotes:
French Student: [First lines] They call out for us. They need our help. We must save them, the people of Alsace-Lorraine.
British Student: We must destroy the Hun. Every single one of them, the women too, so they don't rise back again.
German Student: We have a new enemy. A dangerous enemy that lies across the sea. England.
10thz - I took a chance and rented this movie at blockbuster, the beginning was slow, but as the story progressed the beginning was appropriate and story moving. If this story is true as the director claims, its gotta be one of the best unbelievable stories ever told !
Fortunately the Germans, French and Scott's speak English considerably throughout the movie, when they don't there is English sub-titles. The Germans and French spoke better English than the Scottish http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/06.gif
Pierre-25 (http://www.imdb.com/user/ur0233641/comments) <SMALL>from Montreal, Canada says:</SMALL>
"This very touching story about a true occurrence during the first Christmas of the Great War is very moving. Although the truce was not a generalized event, it did happen in quite a few areas all along the front line. It was the only moment of sanity in an otherwise gruesome experience in futility. Twenty years later, these same countries would be at it again.Karl Marx said that wars are awful events pitting ordinary people (proletariats) one against another for the benefit of the wealthy, the powerful, the aristocrats. This aspect is depicted very well in this movie. I would just like to add a footnote: Alfred Anderson, the last survivor of the Christmas Truce of 1914 died November 21th, 2005 at a nursing home in his native Scotland. He was 109 years old. Lest we forget."
"Two Thumbs Up" - Ebert & Roeper
10thz http://us.i1.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/i/mesg/tsmileys2/22.gif