Red Rose of Normandy (2011)
Klaus Muller, a battle-hardened veteran, finds himself fighting for his life on the Russian front. Surrounded by overwhelming numbers of Russian tanks and planes, he and his men are doomed until famed German tank ace, Michael Wittmann, shows up in his Tiger Tank and saves the day. Once wounded, Klaus is transferred to Normandy to serve under Field Marshal Rommel just days before the Allied invasion. Much to his surprise, he finds that his beloved Klaudia is also stationed nearby as a field nurse. Unfortunately, so is her father, who is working with the French resistance and now finds himself pursued by the ruthless Gestapo officer Brahms, whose search leads him to Klaus and Klaudia attempting a rescue. They are caught and imprisoned. As D-Day begins and the Allies attack from the beaches and the sky, they escape from the prison, fighting the Gestapo in the middle of the biggest invasion in world history... Written by tino struckmann
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Load of rubbish!!
it is finally so absorbing because it plays like a lyrical road odyssey that’s also a detective story.
I enjoyed watching this film and would recommend other to give it a try , (as I am) but this movie, although enjoyable to watch due to the better than average acting fails to add anything new to its storyline that is all too familiar to these types of movies.
The plot isn't so bad, but the pace of storytelling is too slow which makes people bored. Certain moments are so obvious and unnecessary for the main plot. I would've fast-forwarded those moments if it was an online streaming. The ending looks like implying a sequel, not sure if this movie will get one
strangely i couldn't stop watching this! imagine a WW2 re-enactment taking place somewhere and a woman doing the walk of shame stumbles across it and they all play lets pretend for an hour or so that is this film!! comedy to say the least ....when fish lips dies Klaus keeps looking at his hands (looking for blood but there's none to be seen) this is the point where i very nearly wet my pants .....my grandfather fought in the war he was and English pilot so i like to watch the occasional war film. Its definitely more dads army than Saving private Ryan. If its on TV and there's nothing else at all to watch waste an hour or so but you have been warned!
Other reviewers do have some valid points on the movie - the acting is not the greatest and at times you can see the low-budget effects but this has been GREATLY overstated.The script is good and, most of the time, the direction is passable albeit that sometimes the acting is wooden (and I did say "sometimes"). A great plus for me is that there is a serious attempt, thanks to the large number of re-enactors involved, to use accurate uniforms, weapons and equipment (btw the bright red lipstick shown was very fashionable in the 1940s) and there is some real feel of combat in a way that there is not with a great many other war movies ('The Longest day' and 'Saving Private Ryan' being particular exceptions).'The Rose of Normandy' will never be a classic and could have been better edited to reduce the times when you can see the low budget effects (we didn't need to see the totally empty sea behind the landing craft...) but the "Worst WWII Movie Ever" ? NOT by a very very long way.Have the other reviewers not seen 'The Battle of the Bulge', 'To Hell and Back', 'The Heroes of Telemark', 'The Big Red One', 'Operation Crossbow', and all of those other movies where the Producer/Director has not even tried to reflect 1940s uniforms, equipment and fashion because they really couldn't be bothered and may well have had a simple contempt for their audiences ? No, as I said, "Normandy" is not a great movie but is well worth the hour and a half indulgence
Saw this on TV and at first thought I might switch channel because of the low budget feel. However, as I watched it I became engaged by the depiction of honour and decency in the lead character, a tough German veteran of the Russian front. This enabled me to enjoy the film. Interestingly, it is more sincere and accurate in many details than much more slick productions I have seen. They didn't have many tanks, but the Russians were in T34s, the Germans had a Tiger, and the Americans rolled up in Shermans. My sympathy for the old fashioned values depicted (and appreciation of the quality of German infantry, albeit in a heinous cause), made it worthwhile for me.
As a WWII reenactor and history enthusiast, I tend to be rather harsh on movies, but in this case I think a low rating is justifiable. I can appreciate Mr. Struckmann's enthusiasm for working with reenactors in film, but it is simply not working out for him. He seems to bite off more than he can chew in this movie, given his roles as lead actor, producer, executive producer, director, and writer. The plot was barely discernible, and even though I did sit through the whole movie, I'm still not exactly sure what happened. Perhaps if Tino decided to stick with one role, be it acting, directing, or whatever, and practiced it a great deal, then he might have more success. In addition to the flaws with the story, the historical inaccuracies are so glaring that they seriously made me contemplate shooting my television. Many of the "top of the line" troops are overweight and middle-aged, and the wide variety of individual reenactors with different impressions means that you have many people with different gear congregating where they shouldn't be (E.G. Heer, SS, Fallschirmjäger, and Luftwaffe troops guarding a Gestapo prison). While I appreciate that working with reenactors allows the movie access to plenty of period vehicles, weapons, and pieces of equipment for a minuscule price, it doesn't make the movie very convincing at all thanks to their often unprofessional appearance and actions. Overall, I can appreciate the amount of work put in my Mr. Struckmann, but I think that this movie spends too much time trying to be an epic with hundreds of troops on screen and not enough working out the many kinks in the story to be worth more than a laugh.