1981 · drama · war
Gallipoli
Directed by Peter Weir1h 52m1981
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.
Our read: Gallipoli (1981) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · war entry — measured in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, measured drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, mid-stakes, measured.
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