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Director: Stuart Cooper
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From Time Out London
This remarkable dramatisation of the preparations of a young British soldier (Brian Stirner) for the 1944 D-Day landings has languished in obscurity since it won the Silver Bear in Berlin in the mid-’70s. Working in collaboration with the movie archive of the Imperial War Museum, Cooper watched some 3,000 hours of WWII footage before selecting material for the impressive montages which interlace his simple, but movingly told period narrative which he shot on old equipment and stock with cinematographer John Alcott.
In its quiet way, it’s something of a triumph: narratively, Cooper manages to give a moving, elegiac quality to this soldier’s chronicle of a death foretold; and aesthetically, in his finely-edited sequences of often aerially-shot archive footage – of war-torn cities, the strafing of columns or trains, dog fights over the Kent countryside – he brings out the strange, emotive beauty contained in these images of an economy of death.
Author: Wally Hammond
Time Out London Issue 1954: Jan 30 to Feb 5
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- Texas Tom said...
- Posted on Jun 21 2011 15:36 The song "We Don't Know Where We're Going (Until We're There) was written by Ralph Butler & Noel Gay. It was sung (in the movie "Overlord") by Nick Curtis.
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- Eleanor Rees said...
- Posted on Jul 16 2010 20:50 I remember my dad singing this song 35+ years ago! It's been spinning round my head for the last 3 days! Trying to find a link so I can hear the whole thing (or read the lyrics!)
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- Dominic said...
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Posted on Nov 13 2009 21:47
According to IMDB:
"We Don't Know Where We're Going"
Written by Ralph T. Butler (as Ralph Butler) & Noel Gay
Sung by Nick Curtis - Report as inappropriate
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- chris said...
- Posted on Jun 20 2009 22:05 i really want to know too all i know is the music in this film was prduced by paul glass. if any one know please say!
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- Alan Sheerin said...
- Posted on Mar 30 2009 22:15 Can anyone tell me who sang the song "Where are we going" in the film "Overlord"
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- Alan Sheerin said...
- Posted on Mar 30 2009 22:14 Can anyone tell me who sang the song "Where are we going" in the film "OverlordThe comment you type inthis box will appear on the site
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Cast & crew
Director: Stuart Cooper
Producer: James Quinn
Cast: Brian Stirner, Davyd Harries, Nicholas Ball, Julie Neesam, Sam Sewell, John Franklyn-Robbins, Stella Tanner full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 83 mins
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