Brother's War (2009)

Director:

Jerry Buteyn

Writers:

Warren Lewis (screenplay) and
Tino Struckmann (screenplay) ...

Genre:

History | War

Tagline:

Enemy At The Gates Meets The Man Who Would Be King. During the Final days

Plot:

The story is set in the latter days of World War 2, against the backdrop of fierce combat on the eastern front...

Plot Keywords:

Battle | Freemason | Eastern Front | Russian Front | Friendship

Cast

Tino Struckmann	...	Capt. Klaus Mueller
Michael Berryman	...	Col. Petrov
Olivier Gruner	...	Anton
Hayley Carr	...	Anna
Hugh Daly	...	Maj. Andrew Pearman
Jack Dimich	...	NKVD Officer
Adam Leadbeater	...	Lt. Ivanov
Tye Olson	...	Emil
Steve Holm	...	Friedrich
Dylan Kenin	...	Gestapo Officer
Boris Kievsky	...	Sergie
Time Winters	...	Zindrowski
Joshua Minnick	...	German Prisoner #2
Andreas T. Ramani	...	German Prisoner #1
Mark Doerr	...	German Sergeant

MPAA:

Rated R for war violence.

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Colour:

Colour

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Certification:

USA:R | Singapore:NC-16

Filming Locations:

Fort MacArthur, San Pedro, Los Angeles, California, USA

Company:

Almighty Dog Productions

Goofs:

Continuity: After changing into a Russian uniform to make his escape, Major Pearman (Hugh Daly),can be seen(in various shots), wearing a tan Russian side cap. The hat disappears and reappears throughout the escape. (These scenes were shot in three different locations over four months.)

How not to make War Movies

If you are an American movie producer, director or scriptwriter, and you want to put a believable war story on film, you should observe a few ground rules: 1.) Find a reputable war story, that interest's and intrigues you.

Do not make a story up, or select events and clump them together,

if they are too remotely related.

2.) Have a few Veterans or Survivors consulted and included in the

extras of the DVD, from all sides. Hurry up, they will not be

around forever.

3.) Read the History part, try to be as authentic as possible.

4.) Read about soldiers from the other side, try to get their characters

and culture right.

The Russians in this film look like morons and goons, the director

should have watched some Russian war flicks like 'ZVESDA', 'SVOY'

or 'KONVOY PQ-17', to get the feeling.

5.) Have military advisers around, to make sense out of the action

scenes. At least this movie had some original vehicles like the

Hetzer. But they seemed to be lost on the Battlefield.

6.) Get actors, that act like soldiers act in wars.

Do not make the mistake of assigning pretty actors to one side,

and the most ugly ones to the other.

Do not dehumanize any side. Criticize them by their deeds, do not

paint them as subhumans.

7.) Do not make a war movie, that subjects to your ideology.

This one felt like a typical propaganda movie.

A very naive and born out of prejudiced klishe'.

8.) A good musical score, this was the only part in the movie, that was

done good.