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The Deer Hunter (1978)
Director: Michael Cimino
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From Time Out Film Guide
This is probably one of the few great films of the decade. It's the tale of three Pennsylvanian steelworkers, their life at work, at play (deer-hunting), at war (as volunteers in Vietnam). Running against the grain of liberal guilt and substituting Fordian patriotism, it proposes De Niro as a Ulyssean hero tested to the limit by war. Moral imperatives replace historical analysis, social rituals become religious sacraments, and the sado-masochism of the central (male) love affair is icing on a Nietzschean cake. Ideally, though, it should prove as gruelling a test of its audience's moral and political conscience as it seems to have been for its makers.Author: CA
Cast & crew
Director: Michael Cimino
Producer: Barry Spikings, Michael Deeley, Michael Cimino, John Peverall
Cast: Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, George Dzundza, Chuck Aspegren full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 182 mins
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