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Unknown Soldier (2006)

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Reviews Counted:10

Fresh:6

Rotten:4

Average Rating:6.1/10

Rated: Not Rated

Runtime: 1 hr 37 mins

Genre: Foreign Films

Theatrical Release:Sep 7, 2007 Limited

Synopsis: The Wehrmacht-Exhibition, which was shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than 500,000 attendants, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their... The Wehrmacht-Exhibition, which was shown in eleven major cities in Germany between 1999 and 2004 and was visited by more than 500,000 attendants, challenged ordinary Germans to rethink what their fathers and grandfathers did during the war. Whereas most had been led to believe that the cold-blooded murder of civilians had been a crime of a minority of officers, for the first time Germans saw photos and footage of ordinary soldiers gleefully tormenting and executing civilians on the Eastern front. The nation was shaken, and large protests were organized by those who believed the evidence was manufactured. In THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER, director Michael Verhoeven (The Nasty Girl) interviews historians and experts, including those who allege or deny the crimes, and filmed in the killing fields of Ukraine and White Russia. --© First Run Features [More]

Director: Michael Verhoeven

Director: Michael Verhoeven
Producer: Michael Verhoeven
Composer: Martin Grubinger & Art Percussion, Mike Herting
Studio: First Run Features

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Is such footage appropriate to the big-screen environment of the cinema?

Full Review Source: Film Journal International | comment Comment
09/10/07
Doris Toumarkine
Doris Toumarkine
Film Journal International

The film eventually becomes one long therapy session for the German nation as it struggles to understand how its brave and good soldiers could have done such bad, bad things.

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09/18/07
Julia Wallace
Julia Wallace
Village Voice

Once the film gets mired in specifics, it begins to seem like any other Holocaust documentary and loses the sense of relevance and engagement with the now that at first makes it so intriguing.

Full Review Source: Los Angeles Times | comment Comment
10/19/07
Mark Olsen
Mark Olsen
Los Angeles Times

Much too much weight for a 97-minute film to bear.

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09/06/07
Paul Brenner
Paul Brenner
Filmcritic.com

As Verhoeven's film makes clear, many thousands of surviving German veterans, along with a disturbing quotient of their children and grandchildren, are much too eager to make excuses.

Full Review Source: Salon.com | comment Comment
09/06/07
Andrew O'Hehir
Andrew O'Hehir
Salon.com
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Even if you've watched archival evidence of the Holocaust before, anyone with a soul and a functioning conscience intact ought to brace yourself to be sickened afresh by this nauseating, if necessary, reminder of man's inhumanity to man. Never again!

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09/06/07
Kam Williams
Kam Williams
NewsBlaze

German director Michael Verhoeven returns to his country's Nazi past with this searing documentary about the aftershocks of a controversial museum exhibition that rattled the conscience of a nation.

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09/07/07
Ken Fox
Ken Fox
TV Guide's Movie Guide

Another apt title for Michael Verhoeven's new film could be It's All True.

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08/28/07
Kent Turner
Kent Turner
Film-Forward.com

It is a painful but important subject, to be certain, but the film dilutes its own effectiveness by devolving into a collection of talking heads who often seem to be repeating each other.

Full Review Source: Film Threat | comment Comment
09/13/07
Phil Hall
Phil Hall
Film Threat

Structurally, the film itself is a pristine example of levelheaded journalism.

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09/06/07
Rob Humanick
Rob Humanick
Slant Magazine
 
 
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