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Tobruk (2008 film)
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Wikipedia article
'Tobruk' is a 2008 film written and directed by Vclav Marhoul and starring Jan Meduna and Petr Vanek. It is an adaptation of the classic 1895 American Civil War novel 'The Red Badge of Courage' by Stephen Crane, but transfers the action to North Africa during World War II.
Plot
Ji and Jan are two Czech soldiers, fighting alongside the Allied forces against the Italians during World War II in Tobruk, Libya. Ji Pospichal, 18 years old, signs up as a volunteer in the Czechoslovak 11th Infantry Battalion. His naive ideas about heroism are rawly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and the ubiquitous threat of death. All this takes its cruel toll in the shape of his gradual loss of self-respect and courage.
Cast
*Jan Meduna as Private Pospchal
*Petr Vanek as Private Lieberman
*Robert Nebensk as Corporal Kohk
*Krystof Rmsk as Private Kutina
Production
The film was co-financed by D Cargo, HBO Europe, JCDecaux, Letit Praha, Respekt, RWE and the Czech Ministry of Defence.[https://twitter.com/Mateschrank/status/1411238487920160770/ @Mateschrank on Twitter, 3 July 2021.] It was shot in Tunisia.[https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1224376/locations?ref_=tt_dt_loc 'Tobruk (2008) Filming & Production', imdb.com (without date).]
Reception
The film was nominated for eight Crystal Lions at the 2009 Czech Lion Ceremony. It won best cinematography (Vladimr Smutn), best score (Richard Horowitz and Sussan Deyhim) and best sound (Pavel Rejholec and Jakub Cech).
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