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21 June 1966 (USA)
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MIRACLES IN THE AIR! more
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A young pilot in the German air force of 1918, disliked as lower-class and unchivalrous, tries ambitiously to earn the medal offered for 20 kills. full summary | add synopsis
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Won BAFTA Film Award.
Another 4 nominations
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How a man with a dream, misuses it and falls from grace...
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Cast
(Cast overview, first billed only) | George Peppard | ... | Lt. Bruno Stachel |
 | James Mason | ... | General Count von Klugermann |
 | Ursula Andress | ... | Countess Kaeti von Klugermann |
 | Jeremy Kemp | ... | Willi von Klugermann |
| Karl Michael Vogler | ... | Colonel Otto Heidemann |
| Anton Diffring | ... | Holbach |
| Harry Towb | ... | Kettering |
| Peter Woodthorpe | ... | Corporal Rupp |
| Derek Newark | ... | Ziegel |
| Derren Nesbitt | ... | Fabian |
 | Loni von Friedl | ... | Elfi Heidemann (as Loni Von Friedl) |
| Friedrich von Ledebur | ... | The Field Marshal (as Friedrich Ledebur) |
| Carl Schell | ... | Von Richthofen aka The Red Baron |
| Hugo Schuster | ... | Hans. Elderly Servant |
| Alex Scott | ... | The Orator |
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156 min | USA:153 min (FMC Library Print)
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2.35 : 1 more
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6-Track Stereo |
4-Track Stereo (magnetic prints) (Westrex Recording System) |
Mono (optical prints) (Westrex Recording System)
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Canada:G (Quebec) |
Ireland:12 (old rating) |
Germany:12 (DVD rating) |
Australia:PG |
Finland:K-16 |
Sweden:15 |
UK:PG |
USA:Unrated |
West Germany:16 (f) |
Singapore:NC-16 |
Iceland:12
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"Stachel" is the German word for sting.
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Errors made by characters (possibly deliberate errors by the filmmakers): After arriving at his new air station, Lieutenant Stachel is interviewed by his squadron's commanding officer (CO). While looking through Stachel's personnel record, the CO asks him what rank he had attained in the infantry. This was a needless question, since Stachel's record would clearly have shown all ranks he had previously held.
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Willi von Klugermann:
By the way, Stachel... there's an impression around that... you care more about your unconfirmed kill than you do about Fabian's death.
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Bruno Stachel: Perhaps it's force of habit. In the trenches, we couldn't even bury the dead; there were too many of them. I've never had the time... to discuss them over a glass of champagne.
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Bruno Stachel: Perhaps it's force of habit. In the trenches, we couldn't even bury the dead; there were too many of them. I've never had the time... to discuss them over a glass of champagne.
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Referenced in Top Secret! (1984)
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I will be brief. Buy it, it's a must! George Peppard plays his role, Stachel, to the hilt in this WWI war drama. He is supported by very talented and well-known actors such as James Mason, Ursula Andress, Anton Diffring and many others.
The image is sharp and the colors are vivid. The sound is a bit conventional, but since the story is all-encompassing and well developed you will probably forget all technicalities and just sit through an excellent movie as I did.
The story deals with a simple German infantry soldier, stuck in the horror of the trench warfare, who dreams to fly and become an ace.
Well, he doesn't have to wait long and soon he's a flyer. he also becomes an ace.
Unfortunately, his modest social origins, keep him from the Sun, the Blue Max in fact. The Blue Max is the highest ranking medal given to pilots in WWI.
Knowing that, Stachel (Peppard) decides to fight all the odds and becomes totally ruthless and opportunistic.
Unluckily for him, two can play at the same game. The German Reich needs a hero, an example to play its cards right, in order to have more draftees to send to the front.
Stachel becomes such a hero, but to a price...
It is a crude and cruel depiction of the rise and fall of someone who came from nothing and through war, thought he could make it in society, only to find out that certain games are better left alone.
A very good morals and ethics lesson, from which many people could still learn something.
I can only suggest it. The rest is up to you.