Film Snail

War

The Drummer's Tale

The Drummer's Tale

July 11, 1985

A story about the feat of an unusual military unit - a brass band that took part in the heroic defense of Sevastopol.

Come and See

Come and See

October 17, 1985

The invasion of a village in Byelorussia by German forces sends young Florya into the forest to join the weary Resistance fighters, against his family's wishes. There he meets a girl, Glasha, who accompanies him back to his village. On returning home, Florya finds his family and fellow peasants massacred. His continued survival amidst the brutal debris of war becomes increasingly nightmarish, a battle between despair and hope.

Der Krieg meines Vaters

June 30, 1985

Munich Film Festival 1985.

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

Penguin's Memory: A Tale of Happiness

June 22, 1985

Mike is a penguin soldier who returns home after being injured during combat. Estranged from his family and friends, he leaves his hometown and starts to roam adrift through the country.

Time of the Leopards

June 16, 1985

As children, a Mozambique native and a Portuguese colonialist were friends. Years have passed and Mozambique is fighting for its independence. Two childhood friends meet on opposing sides.

Raiders of the Golden Triangle

June 7, 1985

The Thai government sends a man in undercover to a guerrilla compound to bring down Thailand's biggest drug lord, who supplies opium to most of the world.

Listen in the Compartments

Listen in the Compartments

June 6, 1985

Two skippers and their military ships are participating in big maneuvers.

Cold at the Spring's Beginning

Cold at the Spring's Beginning

June 1, 1985

The action takes place during the Great Patriotic War in Belarus. The village in which the boy Kastus lived was located in the partisan zone. He soon made friends with the partisans, who became close people to him. The loss of his older friends was unexpected and difficult for Kastus...

Wild Team

Wild Team

June 1, 1985

A South American rebel leader in exile in Miami is given one last chance to overthrow his successor, a brutal dictator, by a multi-national mining group out to exploit his countries' mineral resources.

Treasure of the Amazon

Treasure of the Amazon

May 30, 1985

An adventurer and his buddies race a former Nazi and others to diamonds in the South American jungle.

Jungle Heat

Jungle Heat

May 25, 1985

Towards the end of the Vietnam war, the US is running low on drivers for their supplies so they bring in a new lot of recruits and have to train them to survive in the dangers of wartorn Vietnam. The recruits are trained briefly by an American officer but are quickly handed off to their South Vietnamese officers and are made to go out into the dangers of Vietnam without getting the protection they need by the Americans who are more concerned with withdrawing their own troops instead of protecting the South Vietnamese

Reporting from the Line of Fire

Reporting from the Line of Fire

May 23, 1985

An Indecent Obsession

An Indecent Obsession

May 23, 1985

Sister Honour Langtree (Wendy Hughes), is in charge of a military hospital for psychiatric patients. She however transgresses boundaries by developing a sexual attraction for a new patient.

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Rambo: First Blood Part II

May 21, 1985

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Adieu Bonaparte

Adieu Bonaparte

May 17, 1985

This big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a crazed turn by Patrice Chereau as Napoleon Bonaparte. The film, an Egyptian-French co-production, deals with Napoleon's occupation of Alexandria and its effect on a typical Egyptian family. Michel Piccoli leads the cast as a general in Napoleon's army who tentatively befriends a local poet.

Memory of the Camps

Memory of the Camps

May 7, 1985

In 1945, Allied troops invaded Germany and liberated Nazi death camps. They found unspeakable horrors which still haunt the world’s conscience. A film was made by British and American film crews who were with the troops liberating the camps. It was directed in part by Alfred Hitchcock and was broadcast for the first time in its entirety on PBS FRONTLINE in 1985.

D-Day to Berlin: A Newsnight Special

D-Day to Berlin: A Newsnight Special

May 7, 1985

George Stevens's remarkable film is acclaimed by historians as the most important colour footage taken during the war. Milestones covered include the liberation of Paris, the link-up between the Russian and American armies on the River Elbe and the Allied capture of the Dachau concentration camp.

Two steps from "Paradise"

Two steps from "Paradise"

May 6, 1985

1944 year. Carpathians. Soviet intelligence officers were tasked with detecting and destroying a strategically important enemy object - a uranium ore warehouse, encoded by the nazis under the name "Paradise".

Displaced Person

May 6, 1985

Displaced Person is a 1985 Emmy award winning drama based on a short story by Kurt Vonnegut. It was directed by Alan Bridges and adapted by Fred Barron from a story in the Welcome to the Monkey House collection.

Wo ist der Bahnhof?

Wo ist der Bahnhof?

May 4, 1985

The brothers Gé and Arie Temnes return to the home where they used to live as teenagers during WWII. Arie talks about the role that he played in the resistance movement.