1962 · drama · war · action
The Longest Day (1962)
Directed by Ken Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton2h 58m1962
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"
Our read: The Longest Day (1962) (1962) reads as a sombre, steady, grounded drama · war · action entry — extreme in intensity, epic-stakes in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, steady, extreme drama / war, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, epic, measured.
- sombre
- extreme
- epic-stakes
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