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War Zone (1986)
Director: Nathaniel Gutman
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From Time Out Film Guide
The approach employed here is so unimaginative, the format so tired, that electro-cardiac shock couldn't save this melodrama (filmed in English) from its own dubiously oversimplified politics. Don Stevens (Walken), jaded war correspondent, finds himself in the Lebanon, a disengaged hack who wanders somnolently through the gunfire, until an exclusive (which turns out to be a set-up) plunges him into the middle of the battle. Another chapter of recent history reduced to an amalgam of censored memory, romance, and imagination.Author: SGo
Cast & crew
Director: Nathaniel Gutman
Producer: Elisabeth Wolters-Alfs
Cast: Christopher Walken, Marita Marschall, Hywel Bennett, Arnon Zadock, Amos Lavie, Etti Ankri full cast
Genre(s): Action/Adventure
Duration: 99 mins
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