Paths Of Glory

1958 • 87 Minuten

Über diesen Film

This powerful, fact-based absurdity-of-war film stars Kirk Douglas as a commanding officer who defends three scapegoats on trial for a failed offensive that occurred within the French Army in 1916.

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Never a huge fan of Kirk Douglas' .... until his performance here. His controlled fury and sense of irony during the scene where he informs his subordinate that he will be conducting the execution is sublime. Amongst the best of all war films ...

SUPERB ANALYSIS OF THE TOTAL INSANITY OF WAR! One of Stanley Kubrick's best "War Movies" - a tie with FULL METAL JACKET, for this Vietnam era Vet.

The story is based in France on the front between France and Germany with French troops in World War I one of the best antiwar movies ever made