Company of Heroes (2013)

American soldiers lost behind enemy lines during the WWII make a horrific discovery: Hitler has a super bomb in development. Against all odds, they set out to find the scientist in charge of the program who is looking to defect.

Director:

Don Michael Paul

Writers:

David Reed (screenplay), Danny Bilson (story),

Stars:

Tom Sizemore, Alastair Mackenzie, Chad Michael Collins

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Tom Sizemore	...	Dean Ranson
Chad Michael Collins	...	Nate
Vinnie Jones	...	Brent Willoughby
Dimitri Diatchenko	...	Ivan Puzharski
Neal McDonough	...	Lt. Joe Conti
Jürgen Prochnow	...	Luca Gruenewald
Melia Kreiling	...	Kestrel
Richard Sammel	...	Beimier
Philip Rham	...	Lt.Schott
Alastair Mackenzie	...	Chambliss
Peter Ladjev	...	Ricky Rizzo
Ivo Arakov	...	Johnny Lewis
Atanas Srebrev	...	O.S.S Officer
Zara Dimitrova	...	Coat Check Girl
Hristo Balabanov	...	Nazi Guard

Storyline

During the last major German offensive of World War II, a company of American soldiers is lost behind enemy lines during the Battle of the Bulge and they make a horrific discovery - Hitler has a super bomb in development. The soldiers soon learn about a secret allied mission to retrieve a defecting German scientist in charge of a Hitler's weapons program. Faced with impossible odds, the company and an escaping POW go on a daring raid into the heart of Nazi Germany in pursuit of the scientist.

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Genres:

Action | War

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated R for bloody war violence throughout, some language and brief nudity

Details

Country:

USA

Language:

English German

Release Date:

26 February 2013 (USA)

Also Known As:

Companhia de Heróis

Company Credits

Production Co:

Destination Films

Technical Specs

Runtime:

100 min

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

When the company escapes from the nuclear facility in Stuttgart they shoot at the German soldiers. One, being hit, is falling from a pipeline and screaming the "Wilhelm Scream".

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Goofs

When the company escapes from the nuclear facility they open a door with an "Eingang" sign, which hangs upside down.

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Soundtracks

Moonlight Sonata
(uncredited)
Written by Ludwig van Beethoven

User Reviews

The film raises a fundamental question

There are countless extraordinary stories from the war years. And many stories intertwine with other stories. A person involved in creating films would have thousands upon thousands of fantastic, harrowing stories to choose from. I've read many and I just read for entertainment. A true historian could lead one to thousands. Why can't Hollywood take advantage of technology and reproduce some of them accurately? They could make very entertaining, exciting movies. They would never run out of scripts. Truth is stranger, more unpredictable, much more fascinating than any fictitious tale, specially during the incredibly events of that time. The stories lie in the individual experiences. Not so much in the epic, major campaign, major battle subject manner. In this movie, the language/slang of the time, scenario, combat events, characters, equipment, geography, are all inaccurate. It serves as a display of how ignorant Hollywood is of history that is really hardly history at all being that the war ended just 20 years before I was born.