What have you been watching?

Goya, was that the first ship sunk by Germany's first guided bomb?

 

PzJgr:

No that was sunk by the Soviets in 1945, the liner was carrying quite a bit of passengers~civilians and the Soviets had been warned secretly that many ships of all classes were going to try and make their way westward from the Baltic to Denmark. simply put the Goya was a ripe plum with no protection and was easily sunk: 5230 brt's, 5000 Tote, sunk on 16.4.45

a war crime spoken by many ......

 

Watched Crash Dive with Tyrone Power & Dana Andrews this afternoon. A typical wartime flag-waver, but still a good movie. Almost made up for the BBC only showing They Were Expendable in England last Saturday.

 

Some Panther action later tonight....

 

that looks good.... can you elaborate?

 

The Grey Zone (2001)

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0252480/

Actually about the "famous" revolt in the camp in 1944.

http://holocaust-info.dk/auschwitz/intro.htm

In October 1944 members of the Jewish forced workers in Krema IV, the Sonderkommando, intiates a desperate revolt in which the Krema is set on fire, and about 30 SS-men are killed, including the leader of the Krema, August Brück, who is thrown into one of of the furnaces. The revolt is quickly beaten down, and all the Sonderkommando's killed.

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OK movie with Harvey Keitel as SS-Oberscharfuhrer Eric Muhsfeldt. The "funniest" part was when they threw the SS-guard into the oven alive...

 

Britain's Channel Four is set to excel itself with WW2 movies this week. On Tuesday, they're showing Went The Day Well? (my favourite), on Thursday it's Odette, and then on Friday Sea of Sand.
Nice one!

 

Band of Brothers. Fantastic mini-series.

 

I am going to watch Cross of Iron this weekend granted its war fiction its a darn good film.

 

Watched Back to Bataan on BBC2 this afternoon. Still a classic.

 

The Military Channel had a program on the Fall of France.
Some footage I've never seen before,a French tank being turned over by a Stuka's bomb. Looked real enough.
Can't imagine the photographer being that close,though.

 

I'm having great fun watching the DVD set of the TV series from the '80s called 'Selling Hitler' , based on the book by Robert Harris. Brilliant !

It's a dramatisation of the Hitler Diaries hoax with a truly top-notch cast of actors including Jonathan Pryce, Alan Bennett, Alison Steadman etc playing the full array of characters involved ( such as Edda Goering, David Irving, Rupert Murdoch, Hugh Trevor-Roper etc ).

Only ever shown once on British TV, it's available on DVD in - of all places - Holland

It is very, very funny indeed !

 

Perhaps we can get Stev to send us over a job lot?

No.9

 

I got mine for £10 on evilbay - worth every penny....

 

10 Pounds!? You was ripped off, you was!



You should have used your connections first! That is what they are there for!!! They are quite readily available here, I gather. For less than what one pays at E(vil)Bay. If anyone wants one, lemme know....

S.

 

That's the one ! Whatever, it's fabulous value - it makes you realise that UK TV companies just don't have the budgets to make this sort of thing any more. A classic production.....

 

I haven't seen it...yet! That surprises me. I often turn into the BBC because of their productions, which I think out-do all European one (Exceptions confirm the rule of course)...

I did see an interesting series on Germany recently, a dramatisation of the fate of a British crew shot down on the Dresden raid...

 

"Burnt by the sun"


The film takes place in 1936 Russia, nineteen years after the Communist Revolution and well into Stalin's reign of terror. We are introduced to Colonel Serguei Kotov (Nikita Mikhalkov), hero of the Revolution, and his family.

It´s a nice summer day, and into their lives walks a young man, who now works for the secret service. In the end he takes Sergei Kotov to Moscow to be shot after interrogation ( already decided by Stalin ), but first he enjoys the company of the people he once knew.

A nice movie, maybe a bit slow in the beginning but since I have not seen many movies on life in the USSR in the 1930´s just watching the people live is quite interesting.

http://www.sonyclassics.com/burntbysun/burntbysun.html

 

Should be on its way in the post...We´ll see if it´s any good...??

 

Come and See

http://movies2.nytimes.com/gst/movies/movie.html?v_id=10400

A re-release on DVD from 1985: Come and See is based on the real-life experiences of Ales Adamovich, who fought with Russian partisans in Belarus in 1943, when the Nazis systematically torched over 600 villages and slaughtered their inhabitants. Adamovich and director Elem Klimov co-authored the screenplay, which shows the horrors through the eyes of a 13-year-old peasant boy named Florya.