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When Trumpets Fade
This made-for-cable film based on a true story plays like a fine art house feature, with some genuinely gripping and novel situations. Not a run-of-the-mill war film, but an intimate and powerful study of the moral complexities and horrors of battle. During the winter of 1944, in western Germany, an emotionally and physically exhausted American private (Ron Eldard, Sleepers) is promoted against his will when he serendipitously survives as the rest of his comrades die around him. Whether or not he's a hero, coward or pure victim of circumstance is the point of this searingly affecting film, which dramatises one of the most senseless battles of the Second World War. Given both intelligence and power by the sure-handed direction of John Irvin, this is wise, affecting television that should not be missed.
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