Flashback (1969)
Heinz is a German soldier stationed as a sniper overlooking his own army from a tree. When he falls asleep, his troops are gone and he is left alone to defend the incoming enemy invasion. Flashbacks recall his wartime experiences and his transition from a human being into a sadistic murderer and rapist.
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Wonderful character development!
This is a tender, generous movie that likes its characters and presents them as real people, full of flaws and strengths.
This story has more twists and turns than a second-rate soap opera.
It's funny, it's tense, it features two great performances from two actors and the director expertly creates a web of odd tension where you actually don't know what is happening for the majority of the run time.
I'm not sure if it's the brilliant acting. Or the masterpiece story. This is mine, and should too be everyone else's, favourite movie. Every little bit of it generates shivers due to the extraordinarity and innovation of the movie. Both the actor, the scriptwriter, the director and everyone else behind this masterpiece are true masterminds. Weren't it for them, humanity would have been short of what defines it. If something is to be shown to later generations to define what mankind has achieved before them it would most certainly be this movie. Anything else would be blasphemy.This is what the Voyager Probe should have carried with it to space, because it isTHE SUMMIT OF HUMANITY
Excellent movie this is! I didn't even knew they could do this kinds of films back then. I especially liked the scene when a soldier comes out of the forest and asks: Who was it? Who was it that did threw? What am I going to do with my shirt? It was a lot of emotions in that scene. I think it has a lot of common with other great war movies such as platoon, apocalypse now and Lilla jönssonligan 2. Epic storytelling all the way. I will definitely see more Italian war movies after seeing this one, because if other old Italian war movies are as good as this one than I will surely not be disappointed. I highly recommend Flashback because the freedom of speech is for real and it is a really good movie!
This is one of the best movies of all time. Flashback takes us on a journey we shall never forget - an epic war drama where Fred Robsahm, king of actors, stuns us with his incredible depth and charisma. In the end, we are left fully satisfied yet wanting more. When all is over, the only question remains that enigmatic line so beautifully delivered by Gianni Cavina: "Did he receive it in the 2nd?".Since this movie became available on certain cinema-loving websites in early 2010, it has been rediscovered and finally appreciated as what it truly is and always has been - the best movie of all time. Avatar, Godfather and Shawshank Redemption are good movies, but director Raffaele Andreassi showed us what a truly great movie looks like. This is indeed a work of art.
First of all i would like to point out that this is no ordinary film, Even though it merely is a composition of a standard 60s movie it has that special you are looking for!I'm quite stunned myself that this movie isn't as noted as it should be, maybe because it hasn't gotten any professional reviews or that it simply didn't make it as far in movie-making history as other films that rivaled with this one.I find it marvelous that i still can find movies like this one and still enjoy epic movie-making in my own home. Watch it! It is simple, simple but special.