THE LAST MEN WW2 MOVIE
SETS INTERNATIONAL CAST
And it sure is panEuropean: French director David Oelhoffen is over in French Guiana shooting historical movie THE LAST MEN (Les Derniers Hommes) with Italy's Guido Caprino, Poland's Andrzej Chyra and Portugal's Nuno Lopes leading the cast. Based on Alain Gandy’s book Les
Chiens Jaunes, it is set in March 1945: the Japanese army launch a sudden, brutally violent assault on the French garrisons in the Far East. Thousands of civilians and soldiers are killed. Stalked by the Japanese enemy, a column of legionnaires who are already weakened by alcohol and disease decide to traverse the jungle in an attempt to reach China and allied bases.
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| Nuno Lopes, Andrzey Cyra and Guido Caprino lead the cast |
It sounds heartbreaking, but something that I'd watch. I've always heard similar stories of my grandfather escaping as a solider by walking for weeks on end in jungle like terrain during WW2. I can't even imagine doing such a thing, but I guess you do what you have to in order to survive.
ReplyDeleteWar movies set in Indochina are usually the best!
DeleteIn that kind of shape, I wonder how many made it to the allied bases.
ReplyDeleteAnd if the bases were happy to see them arrive all boozed up and sick.
DeleteDidn't know that Japan attached France in 1945..This is the kind of movie I would watch too. Have a marvelous day, Dezzy!
ReplyDeleteThey led WW2 down in French Indochina. It was even more brutal than the one we had in Europe, methinks. It took many years after the war even to cleanse the jungles and those regions from the Japanese Nazis.
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