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...hello to love and possibly life in a university. But the past plays harshly on the present. Maciek is humiliated by charges of desertion and carries out his orders to kill. In the end, he dies horribly and senselessly, as if to say that death in itself is never heroic...
EXETER: In Major Della Rovere-Vittorio De Sica transforms from a raffish war profiteer (he helps political prisoners escape--for a fee) to the embodiment of the heroic general he is forced to impersonate. Continuous from...
...Cuba, the Roman Circus was on. Radios blared the March of the Sierra Maestra, and orators described the heroic fight in glowing detail. On Havana street corners, groups of prancing militiamen fired their Czech burp guns into the air, and Jeeps draped with hot-eyed youths careened along the avenues. Communist-country correspondents were hustled off to the shell-pocked beachhead to view the wreckage of invasion-U.S.-made mortars, recoilless rifles, trucks, machine guns, rifles, and medium tanks. A few of the 400 captured survivors were shown on TV, while commentators jabbed jubilant questions at them. The government...
When he made a gesture, it was not one of heroic defiance: he was merely getting out a handkerchief to blow his nose. The monster had a cold...
...Nobody Is Leaving!" Out of a clear sky, as the film begins, a helicopter appears over Rome. Beneath it, on a cable, dangles a heroic gilded Christ, his arms outstretched. Just another adman's bright idea? Or is it "The Son of Man coming in the clouds of heaven . . . the sign . . . of the end of the world"?* With that striking scene begin the days of wrath, the seven nights of destruction prefigured in the Revelation of St. John the Divine...