Film

The Longest Day 1962

Directed by Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Bernhard Wicki

  • War, Action, Drama
  • 178 min
  • PG

THE INTERNATIONAL ACCLAIMED HIT JUST AS IT WAS SHOWN IN THE MAJOR CAPITALS OF THE WORLD!

The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"

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Epic, earnest, plot-driven and classical in form.

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  • earnestironic
  • character-ledplot-driven
  • classical in formformally daring
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