Film Snail

War

Red Angel

Red Angel

October 1, 1966

In 1939, Sakura Nishi is a young army nurse who is sent to the field hospitals in China during the Sino-Japanese war. She has to assist the surgeon Dr. Okabe with an incredible number of amputations. In the crowded wards, she gives sympathy to some of the soldiers, including sexually servicing one who has lost both arms and has no hope of returning home. She falls in love with Dr. Okabe, and follows him to the front, even though he is impotent from his morphine addiction.

Soldier Martin

Soldier Martin

September 28, 1966

A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.

Excursion

Excursion

September 26, 1966

1941 and the war culminates. The wife of a lieutenant and a sergeant fall madly in love. Times and circumstances -military service, marriage, friendship between the two men- forbid this love, but do not negate it. When the lieutenant is injured and taken to hospital, the two lovers, against all odds, dare the only possible way out: he defects, she leaves her husband, and they begin a journey without return towards the border.

On Thin Ice

On Thin Ice

September 26, 1966

Two KGB agents are fighting against foreign spies before and during WWII.

Cold Days

Cold Days

September 26, 1966

Andras Kovacs' film, considered one of the most important Hungarian films of the 1960s, centers around four men who await trial for their involvement in the massacre of several thousand Jewish and Serbian people of Novi Sad in 1942. Each denies any responsibility, claiming that they were only following orders. The film is significant for its willingness to address the subject of Hungary's role in WWII, which was taboo at the time of the its release.

Assignment Cloud

Assignment Cloud

September 17, 1966

A sequel to the popular "The School of Spies", this film continues the adventures of one of the graduates who is assigned to crack a powerful spy ring working out of Kobe. Various people are suspected but, finally, it seems that an Army captain and his geisha friend might lead them to the ring.

Amrapali

Amrapali

September 11, 1966

After a failed conquest, Emperor Ajaatshatru pretends to be a soldier in the enemy's army to weaken them from the inside. However, he falls in love with Amrapali, a well-respected royal courtesan, and must decide what his main priority is.

Beau Geste

Beau Geste

September 2, 1966

In 1906, two American brothers join the French Foreign Legion and, led by a sadistic Sergeant-Major, they defend a fort against Berber and Tuareg attack.

Don Gabriel

Don Gabriel

September 1, 1966

The first Polish film to discuss the failure of September 1939 Polish-German war, seen from the point of view of a university intellectual, fascinated by German culture, who decides to take active part in the conflict.

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

What Did You Do in the War, Daddy?

August 31, 1966

A by-the-book Captain is ordered to capture a strategic village in Italy. The Italian soldiers are willing to surrender, if they can have a festival first. The lieutenant convinces the Captain this is the only way. Because of aerial reconnaissance, they must look like they are fighting. To sort this out an intelligence officer is sent in. Meanwhile the festival gets complicated with the Mayors daughter.

The Battle of Algiers

The Battle of Algiers

September 8, 1966

Tracing the struggle of the Algerian Front de Liberation Nationale to gain freedom from French colonial rule as seen through the eyes of Ali from his start as a petty thief to his rise to prominence in the organisation and capture by the French in 1957. The film traces the rebels' struggle and the increasingly extreme measures taken by the French government to quell the revolt.

Thaaye Unakkaga

August 26, 1966

1966 Tamil remake of "Ballad of a Soldier".

There is a Way

August 15, 1966

A US Air Force produced film that follows a group of F-105 pilots as they pass their hundredth mission during the Vietnam War.

The Postman Goes to War

The Postman Goes to War

August 10, 1966

The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang.

Buty

July 21, 1966

During the war, a nurse finds footwear belonging to a Soviet soldier. The discovery haunts her.

The Blue and the Black 2

The Blue and the Black 2

July 20, 1966

Part two of the wartime love story

Good Times, Wonderful Times

Good Times, Wonderful Times

July 18, 1966

Lionel Rogosin's plea for humanity and against war and fascism. For two years, Rogosin traveled to twelve countries to collect footage of war atrocities from their archives. He interspersed these harrowing images with scenes of a London cocktail party's mundane chatter. Good Times, Wonderful Times was released in 1964 at the height of the Vietnam War, and became one of the great anti-war films of the era.

Clay Pigeon

Clay Pigeon

July 17, 1966

The martyrdom of two workers who fall into the hands of the Gestapo during the occupation of Sarajevo.

The Dream

The Dream

July 14, 1966

In the whirlpool of WW2, two peaceful towns that have already tasted peace are once again attacked by the Germans. Casualties are high, but the dream of a boy and a girl about their liberated towns cannot be destroyed.

Zero Fighter

Zero Fighter

July 13, 1966