Counterpoint

Counterpoint

For every move... a counter move - for every attack... a counter attack!

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Release Date

12/22/1967

Runtime

106 mins

Overview

In December of 1944, Lionel Evans, an internationally renowned American conductor, is on a USO tour with his 70-piece symphony orchestra in newly-liberated Belgium. While fleeing from a German counterattack, Evans and his orchestra members are captured by a Panzer division and taken to an old chateau in Luxembourg. Despite orders to execute every prisoner, General Schiller, an avid music lover, commands Evans to give a private concert for him.

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

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Revenue

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A WWII thriller that explores the fragile power of art to transcend the brutality of war, as an American orchestra conductor must navigate the mind of a cultured German general to save his ensemble from execution. It's a cat-and-mouse game played through music, where every note carries the weight of life and death.

Mood

TenseContemplativeBittersweet

Themes

SurvivalArt and creationPowerWar

Tone

Earnest

Pacing

Steady

Look

NaturalisticWidescreen epic

Structure

Linear

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Graphic violence

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