4 real historical locations · Belgium, Luxembourg
A group of exhausted American soldiers encounter a German unit willing to surrender in the Ardennes forest during the winter of 1944. An intimate anti-war film about the futility of killing among men who no longer believe in the cause they are fighting for.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Belgium, Luxembourg.
An American intelligence squad in the Ardennes winter of 1944 encounters a German patrol seeking to surrender — a fragile, doomed truce forms between exhaust...
The Ardennes in December 1944 was the setting of the Battle of the Bulge, Germany's last major offensive on the Western Front. The film's quieter sector depicts the war-weariness of veteran soldiers near the conflict'...
View location →A six-man American intelligence squad occupies an isolated chateau deep in the snow-bound Ardennes. Across no-man's land, a German patrol makes a startling g...
Set during December 1944 in the static front before the Bulge launched. The film draws on William Wharton's novel, which fictionalises informal Christmas truces that occurred along the front.
View location →The American rear-area assembly point where the squad receives their isolated assignment. Saint-Vith sits on the critical road network that the German Ardenn...
Saint-Vith held out as an American strong-point for six days against the Bulge offensive, delaying German timetables significantly before being surrounded and abandoned on 21 December 1944.
View location →The tragic final sequence plays out near the German-Luxembourg border as the doomed arrangement between the American and German soldiers reaches its devastat...
The Ardennes-Eifel border region saw intense fighting during the Bulge. Luxembourg remained a corridor for Allied supply lines and evacuated civilians throughout the campaign.
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