Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...everywhere. If you are going to try to develop a coalition of understanding based upon decency, on ideas of justice, common concepts of governments, established by the will of free men, then you have got to make compromises. You have got to find the way in between the conflicting partisan considerations that will serve the best good...
Howling Massacre. The last scene began with a tableau of Napoleon's Grande Armée struggling in the snow. Then came a band of howling partisan-patriots to massacre the exhausted invaders...
...snorting horses trample the world's culture, and in his wake float evil, lobster-sized germs. At bottom, two suppliant hands show mankind's futile protest against the horrors of modern war. Standing alone is the Communist version of mankind's protector: a heroic Red peace partisan, with a peace dove shield. The other panel is Picasso's personal dream of peace, where anything is possible. Picasso's trees bear golden fruit, even small children can work a plow, and a benevolent sun wears a festive dress. There are birds in fish bowls suspended...
...actual incident that took place in a Tuscan village, the picture tells of an Italian soldier (Raf Vallone) who, after ten years of war and Russian captivity, returns to his native village. There he encounters the tragic backwash of war. His younger brother is dead, betrayed as a partisan to the Nazis by a friend. When the soldier announces that he is out to avenge the death of his brother, the villagers, weary of bloodshed, shun him and refuse to identify the betrayer. The soldier's best friend, a pious carpenter (Alain Cuny), falsely confesses to the crime...
...nearest thing in America is an Inauguration of a president, but even that event is too partisan and frequent to evoke the same fever. Rather the coronation resembles what would happen if Washington, Lincoln and Jefferson were to come alive, and at an appointed hour drive down Fifth Avenue before the massed memberships of the DAR, SAR and American Legion. But America, lacking a living human being to sum up its history, can only grope at understanding what the Coronation means to the Commonwealth...