Beyond courage, beyond honor.
When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.
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- Wuchakon TMDB · May 20188/10
Like Hogan's Heroes but serious and quasi-realistic RELEASED IN 2002 and directed by Gregory Hoblit, "Hart's War" is a war flick about a paper-pushing lieutenant with a background in law (Colin Farrell) who is unexpectedly captured in Belgium and taken to a POW camp in southern Germany in the closing months of the European theater of the war. He eventually befriends and defends a Tuskegee Airmen (Terrence Howard). Marcel Iures plays the humane German commandant while Bruce Willis plays the tough-as-nails American colonel of the POWs. Cole Hauser is on hand as a racist soldier. This is obviously not a conventional WWII flick. Although it starts out with some great war action, it has more in common with films like "Stalag 17" (1953) and "The Great Escape" (1963), albeit with modern filmmaking craft. As my title blurb points out, it's reminiscent of Hogan's Heroes but without the comedy, plus elements of “A Few Good Men” (1992). The film isn't really about survival in the POW camp, but rather the tensions of the prisoners and the criminal drama. Some have complained that no fascist camp colonel in his right mind would allow such a trial as depicted in the movie. But there are several
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Cast
- Bruce WillisCol. William A. McNamara
- Colin FarrellLt. Thomas W. Hart
- Terrence HowardLt. Lincoln A. Scott
- Marcel IureșCol. Werner Visser
- Cole HauserStaff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford
- Linus RoacheCapt. Peter A. Ross
- Vicellous ShannonLt. Lamar T. Archer
- Rory CochraneSgt. Carl S. Webb
- Joe SpanoCol. J.M. Lange
- Michael WestonPfc. W. Roy Potts
Crew
- Gregory HoblitDirector
- Billy RayScreenplay
- Terry GeorgeScreenplay
- Alar KiviloDirector of Photography
- Rachel PortmanOriginal Music Composer
- David RosenbloomEditor
- David LaddProducer
- Arnold RifkinProducer
- Gregory HoblitProducer
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