The Big Red One
The real glory of war is surviving
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1/22/1980Runtime
113 minsOverview
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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ReleasedOriginal Language
EnglishBudget
$4,500,000Revenue
$7,206,220Homepage
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A unflinching chronicle of infantry combat across multiple theaters, following a hardened sergeant and his squad from North Africa to the gates of hell itself. The film refuses spectacle in favor of exhaustion and moral reckoning.
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