Film Snail

War

Kapo

Kapo

September 27, 1960

Determined to survive at any price, Edith, a young Jewish woman deported to an extermination camp, manages to survive by accepting the role of kapo, a privileged prisoner whose mission is to ruthlessly guard other prisoners.

Red Buds

Red Buds

September 1, 1960

About the heroic struggle of young Korean patriots against the Japanese invaders in 1930.

It Happened in '43

It Happened in '43

September 15, 1960

1943. The affair between Anna, unhappily married to wheelchair-bound Pino, and deserter Franco unfolds in foggy Ferrara, intertwining with the power struggle taking place within local Fascist ranks that culminates in a massacre of civilians, including Franco's father – Pino sees it all from his window, but will he tell anyone?

All the Young Men

All the Young Men

August 26, 1960

During the Korean War, the lieutenant in charge of a Marine rifle platoon is killed in battle. Before he dies, he places the platoon's sergeant, who's black, in charge. The sergeant figures on having trouble with two men in his platoon: a private who has much more combat experience than he does, and a racist Southerner who doesn't like blacks in the first place and has no intention of taking orders from one.

People with Wings

People with Wings

August 24, 1960

This film continues the story of radio operator Ludwig Bartuschek from “The Sailor’s Song”. Near the end of the Weimar Republic, Bartuschek (Erwin Geschonneck) is working as a mechanic in the Sperber airplane plant. Director Dehringer offers him the opportunity to train as an airplane constructor if he is willing to give up his communist beliefs under oath. Bartuschek will not allow himself to be bought and instead joins the underground resistance movement.

Eles Não Voltaram

Eles Não Voltaram

August 10, 1960

Hell to Eternity

Hell to Eternity

August 1, 1960

Based on the story about Guy Gabaldon, a Los Angeles Hispanic boy raised in the 1930s by a Japanese-American foster family. After Pearl Harbor, his foster family is interned at the Manzanar camp for Japanese Americans, while he enlists in the Marines, where his ability to speak Japanese becomes a vital asset. During the Battle of Saipan, he convinces 800 Japanese to surrender after their general commits suicide.

Partisan Stories

Partisan Stories

July 26, 1960

The film has two stories. Story 1: A group f partisans, fighting against the enemy and harsh winter storm, comes to the village where locals are hostile to them. Story 2: One night during the war, a daughter of railway station chief helps the wounded partisan commander to escape; however Germans discover her deeds, and kill her.

X-25 Reports

X-25 Reports

July 24, 1960

Resistance member is sent to infiltrate Nazi intelligence during WW2.

Entanglements

Entanglements

July 21, 1960

The Memento

The Memento

July 7, 1960

The commander of the People's Army of Vietnam Li with his detachment on the way to the front comes to a village completely devastated by the invaders. He stays in the house of a young woman Tu, who has two small children. Tu's husband did not return from the front, missing, and Lee, feeling sorry for the girl, presented her with the dress he bought, which he bought for his mother. Soon, Commander Li is heroically killed in action. He dreamed of a bright day of victory, but did not wait for it ... The war ended, and one of his front-line comrades Shau returns to that village again ...

Operation

Operation

July 7, 1960

Psychological action drama about a group of partisans, ambushed by the enemy.

Light Up the Sky!

Light Up the Sky!

July 5, 1960

Chaos ensues when a bunch of misfits man a British searchlight battery during World War II.

Kamikaze

Kamikaze

July 2, 1960

A documentary about the kamikaze, the brave pilots who gave their lives for their beloved country.

Far from the Motherland

Far from the Motherland

June 19, 1960

Soviet intelligence officer, Lieutenant Goncharenko, under the name of Baron Heinrich von Goldering is thrown into the deep German homeland on a mission to find out the location of the secret underground plant that produces new types of weapons.

A Terrible Beauty

A Terrible Beauty

June 17, 1960

In 1941, the IRA plans a campaign to coincide with the planned German invasion of England. Dermott O'Neil finds it easy to get into the IRA, but can he get out?

The Battle of Austerlitz

The Battle of Austerlitz

June 17, 1960

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

The Mountain Road

The Mountain Road

June 15, 1960

In 1944, in eastern part of China, U.S.Army Major Baldwin and his volunteer team of demolition engineers are left behind the retreating Chinese forces. Their task is to slow down the Japanese advance into eastern China by blowing up bridges, roads, airfields and munitions dumps. They start by blowing up an American airfield and ammo dump. They receive the order to destroy a vital bridge over a mountain pass.The team uses a few army trucks to move around. At the bridge, they encounter a Nationalist Chinese Army unit in charge of guarding the bridge. Thanks to an American soldier who speaks some Chinese, Major Baldwin requests the permission, from the Chinese commander, to blow up the bridge.The Chinese colonel agrees but asks the American Major to do him a favor by also destroying a munitions dump located at some distance away.He also requests that Madame Sue-Mei Hung, the widow of a Chinese colonel, be transported by the American demolition team to the nearest major town.

The Gallant Hours

The Gallant Hours

June 13, 1960

A semi-documentary dramatization of five weeks in the life of Vice Admiral William F. "Bull" Halsey, Jr., from his assignment to command the U.S. naval operations in the South Pacific to the Allied victory at Guadalcanal.

皇室と戦争とわが民族

June 11, 1960

Japanese war film.