| Description |
1 online resource (streaming video file) (84 minutes) : .flv file, sound, black and white |
| Summary |
Seamlessly interweaving archival war footage with a fictional narrative, this immersive account of one twenty-year-old's journey from basic training to the front lines of D-day brings to life all the terrors and isolation of war with jolting authenticity. OVERLORD, directed by Stuart Cooper and impressionistically shot by Stanley Kubrick's longtime cinematographer John Alcott, is both a document of World War II and a dreamlike meditation on human smallness in a large, incomprehensible machine. Winner of two prizes at the **Berlin International Film Festival**. *"Narratively, Cooper manages to give a moving, elegiac quality to this soldier's chronicle of a death foretold; and aesthetically... he brings out the strange, emotive beauty contained in these images of an economy of death." - Wally Hammond, **Time Out*** |
| Notes |
Title from title frames |
| Credits |
Photographed by John Alcott ; edited by Jonathan Gili ; music composed by Paul Glass |
| Performer |
Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam |
| Event |
Originally produced by the Imperial War Museum in 1975 |
| Notes |
In English |
| Subject |
Operation Overlord -- Drama
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- France -- Normandy -- Drama
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Military campaigns.
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Operation Overlord.
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France -- Normandy.
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| Genre/Form |
Drama.
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Feature films.
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Feature films.
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| Form |
Streaming video
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| Author |
Cooper, Stuart, 1942- film director, screenwriter.
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Hudson, Christopher, 1946- screenwriter.
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Quinn, James, 1919-2008, film producer.
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Stirner, Brian, actor.
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Harries, Davyd, 1937- actor.
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Ball, Nicholas, actor.
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Neesam, Julie, actor.
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Joswend Limited Productions, production company
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Imperial War Museum (Great Britain), production company.
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Janus Films (The Criterion Collection) (Firm)
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Kanopy (Firm)
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