The Last Valley
by James Clavell
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Actor: Florinda Bolkan, Michael Caine, Nigel Davenport, Omar Sharif, Per OscarssonDirector: James Clavell
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
Cinematographer: John Wilcox
Cinematographer: Norman Warwick
Producer: James Clavell
Writer: James Clavell
Producer: Martin Baum
Producer: Robert Porter
Writer: J.B. Pick
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French (Original Language); English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled)
Format: Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 128 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-05-25
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
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Movie Review: 30 Years War
Summary: 4 Stars
Interesting film. It attempts to convey the chaos of the war (which is almost impossible to do in such a small snapshot) and the film starts out with a scene which is almost a 1600s version of Mad Max. Not quite the same thing but as the story line develops it gives a more complete picture of the dynamics of the war. The offensive at the end of the film really doesn't make it clar as to WHY the Captain feels he has to go back to the war, but mostly the plot makes sense.
Michael Caine and Omar Sharif put in good performances and have an excellent supporting cast. The constumes are great. The music is OK, although you almost expect it to sudden;y lurch into a sixties protest song.
Summary of The Last Valley
From acclaimed writer James Clavell (Shogun) comes this stirring war epic starring Oscar?(r) winner* Michael Caine as a soldier who knows nothing but battle until he rediscovers the possibility of love. Co-starring Omar Sharif, this powerful film is both a magnificent spectacle and an intensely personal story of love, friendship and loss. The Thirty Years' War rages through 17th-century Germany, and a fierce captain (Caine) lays waste to any village his army encounters. But when he arrives in an undisturbed valley where he meets a beautiful peasant girl, long-dead memories of peace and happiness are reawakened. Inevitably, though, the war is closing in. Will he heed its call or fight for the new life he has found? *Supporting Actor: The Cider House Rules (1999); Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)James Clavell's heartfelt film of paradise found and lost in the midst of the bloody Thirty Years War, a senseless religious conflict long since degenerated into a rabble of looters preying on peasants, is a triumph of passion over style. Michael Caine stars as the Captain, a happily tolerant leader whose army of mercenaries, a mix of Protestants and Catholics, murders, pillages, and rapes side by side for whatever faction is paying more this month. Omar Sharif is Vogel, a lone refugee whose flight from the marauding band leads them all to a beautiful village in the mountains. The Captain and Vogel make an unlikely pair, the shrewd mercenary with the dream of peace, and the philosopher peasant hanging on to his own life in the face of certain death, and their alliance to preserve this Eden and her people stands in contrast to the soldiers who soon become splintered by greed, lust, and religious zealotry. Clavell isn't exactly subtle, but his sense of irony is biting: one Christian soldier is ready to lead an mob in righteous battle after a perceived blasphemer, and in the next scene attacks and rapes an innocent Christian maiden he's sworn to protect. The film falters in clumsy battle scenes and awkward dramatic staging, but Caine's complex characterization of the guarded Captain and Sharif's haunted performance keep the story alive, and the beautiful photography sets the film like a jewel into its setting. --Sean Axmaker
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