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During World War II he was injured while serving near Verdun as an infantry sergeant. Captured by the Nazis, he eventually escaped from his P.O.W. camp and joined the Free French in London. Although De Gaulle named him junior minister in his first Cabinet in 1944, Mitterrand soon became a fierce critic of the general's policies...
Marshall Petain, the aging hero of Verdun, plays a special role in this version of French history. Though he led his country into the Armistice, he became a symbol of a new honor that France hoped would come to her in the new Europe. More pitiful and disturbing than the film's review of the Nazi's lightning defeat of France is its exposure of the French trying to rebuild, their self-esteem by embracing Nazi doctrines of race purity and ultra-nationalism...
...arguing couples at every turn. As in Stolen Kisses. he constantly meets up with the dead and the lonely harbingers of his own doom. In this case there is a recluse in his apartment building who is watching TV until the distant day when "Marshal Petain is buried in Verdun"; an old school chum (who appeared briefly in the earlier movie) wandering the streets in zombie-fashion to borrow money; a neighborhood woman who makes feeble amorous advances, more out of habit than anything else; and a mysterious, silent young man whom all in the community assume...
Died. Fritz von Unruh, 85, German dramatist, novelist and poet famed in the 1920s for his outspoken opposition to militarism; of a stroke; in Diez, Germany. Unruh's moving description of the battle of Verdun in Way of Sacrifice became classic testimony to the cruelty of war. A founder of several anti-Hitler organizations and delegate in the Reichstag during the Weimar Republic, Unruh was a staunch anti-Nazi and went into voluntary exile, first in France, then in the U.S., refusing Hitler's offer to make him "the modern Schiller." Upon returning home in 1948, he spoke...
...Charles' solid price range means his American audience is quite different. It's quite possible that his fatalism-in a song called "The Bulls," for example, he consoles those animals that weekly face two-bit matadors with the thought that men treat each other equally wretchedly, citing Waterloo, Verdun, Stalingrad, Hiroshima and Saigon as proof-strikes a richer chord in the European mind. It's also possible that once you know the whole body of his work, its individual parts behave quite differently...