Sometimes you see a movie about something was really happened. And you were there, at that time. And you don't want to forget. You want nobody will forget. I think this movie is well done, maybe not a real artistic masterpiece, but I don't think this was the target for the director. The real target was just to document real fact as they happened. And if facts were not really that way the director and the producer would surely have problems with law. No problems happened. Sadly, I would prefer to know that this film was fictional and the policemen did their job in the right and humane way. I would really like "Diaz" was just a fiction. But it is not. By the way, I'm from Genova and I was there at the time. Not inside Diaz school, fortunately.
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Fraulein Doktor
(1969)
Well done... nearly
3 December 2013
In my opinion to make a good war movie is quite difficult. As to write a good war novel. Lattuada, later (in)famous for other movie choices, did a lot of efforts to make a reasonable plausible WWI movie. If you don't know much about WWI you will find a little bit difficult to get some references. Anyway, HMS Hampshire looks as a real British Armoured Cruiser despite her behavior on rough seas is questionable. Trenches are well done, but there is a mixture of British and French soldiers, so the starting of 1918 offensive doesn't look as "Michael". Mustard gas, or what it is, is quite impressive. And German Uhlans and horses with masks and protections against the gas is something I remember since I was 14. The movie is not a masterpiece, but I do appreciate the efforts to make a realistic WWI movie.
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