1 real historical location · Russia
Sam Peckinpah's brutal 1977 film follows a German sergeant on the Eastern Front who despises his officers' ideology more than he does the enemy. One of the few major WWII films told entirely from the German soldier's perspective, capturing the nihilistic horror of the Eastern Front.
CinemaMapped has mapped 1 real historical location where the story takes place, spanning Russia.
A cynical German sergeant fights the grinding war of the Kuban bridgehead in 1943 — Peckinpah's brutal deconstruction of war heroism.
The Kuban bridgehead was Germany's last toehold east of Crimea, held from early 1943 until October 1943. The Wehrmacht conducted 16 large defensive operations against Soviet attacks in the Kuban. The eventual evacuati...
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