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My Honor Was Loyalty

  • 2016
  • PG-13
  • 1h 35m
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4.3/10
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Alessandro Pepe in My Honor Was Loyalty (2016)
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Untersharführer Ludwig Herckel (Leone Frisa), is a devoted and patriotic soldier of the elite 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. As the action begins, we follow a small gr... Read allUntersharführer Ludwig Herckel (Leone Frisa), is a devoted and patriotic soldier of the elite 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. As the action begins, we follow a small group of experienced infantry soldiers in combat against Soviet forces. An explosion knocks ... Read allUntersharführer Ludwig Herckel (Leone Frisa), is a devoted and patriotic soldier of the elite 1st SS Panzer Division Leibstandarte SS Adolf Hitler. As the action begins, we follow a small group of experienced infantry soldiers in combat against Soviet forces. An explosion knocks Herschel unconscious and he wanders the woods in a daze. He is met by another soldier who ... Read all

  • Directors
    • Leone Frisa
    • Alessandro Pepe
  • Writer
    • Alessandro Pepe
  • Stars
    • Leone Frisa
    • Francesco Migliore
    • Paolo Vaccarino
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.3/10
    1.2K
    YOUR RATING
    • Directors
      • Leone Frisa
      • Alessandro Pepe
    • Writer
      • Alessandro Pepe
    • Stars
      • Leone Frisa
      • Francesco Migliore
      • Paolo Vaccarino
    • 81User reviews
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    Leone Frisa
    • Ludwig Herckel
    Francesco Migliore
    • Franz Johann Scholl
    Paolo Vaccarino
    • Willi Steiner
    Albrecht Weimer
    • Josef Kolbe
    Alessandra Oriti
    • Margarite
    Alessandro Pepe
    • Dietwolf
    Giulia Dichiaro
    • Eleonor
    Alessio Perrone
    • Grobel
    Marco Massoni
    • Meisen
    Gianluigi Bimbi
    • Joseph Steiner
    Stefano Lamberti
    • American
    Luana Tumbarello
    • Narrator
    Chiara Di Girolamo
    • Hitlerjugend
    Pablo Dumouchel
    • Hitlerjugend
    • Directors
      • Leone Frisa
      • Alessandro Pepe
    • Writer
      • Alessandro Pepe
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      Both the panther tank and tiger tank are reproductions based off of the Russian T-55 tank. As are most German armor used in films. Although the upper hull work is done very well and could fool most, the chassis used is too short and not wide enough for both tanks.
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      When the SS unit moves to France to counter the Allied invasion, the title reads "Normandy 1943" when in fact the invasion was in June 1944.
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    2/10
    The clumsy red line
    In recent times while most movies include various "points" to be made, nearly all of them are produced to "entertain" a target audience and make money. Reviews are meant to give potential viewers some hints on what to expect.

    Very few films are instead produced with the prime objective of stating a position: being it an artistic or ethical-socio-political POV. Our opinion that - demos and educational content aside - a movie isn't the best medium for such "statements" is generally ignored and, as such, irrelevant: symbolic engagement is still more effective than reasoning and thus a well designed movie is more persuasive than a logic text. Regarding these films - as far as we are concerned - reviews are someway as interesting as watching the film itself because serious reviews virtually become part of a discussion. And some discussions easily heat-up...

    Here we have such a film; one - unfortunately - where the author naively uses complex concepts like truth, reality, history, nature (just to name a few) and aims at being a-political while dealing with the most influential event of our world: 2nd world war.

    The result? Talking about Malick's "The thin red line" isn't casual: the parallel is obvious, deliberate and merciless. While Malick let soldiers share with few words their relationship with life, love, war, etc... here we have a lot of preachy-poetic voice-overs from the protagonist (a supposedly simple-minded soldier) and even an out-of-context female lecturing us with "godly wisdom". The outcome is that while in Malick's film I could feel moved by the soldiers' perspectives and engaged by their aesthetic-philosophic value, here I feel like someone is trying to sell me a not-so-subtle brainwashing into Pepe's simplistic world-view.

    Let's not even dig about the technical proficiency: sub par is the first word coming to our mind.

    In the end the bravery required to commit into a project like this (which would like to go way further than any WW2 tale of good VS evil) should be paired with a deeper understanding of what you're doing. Mr Pepe, if you want to change people's perspective or at least enlarge it, being a preachy commercial marketer doesn't work anymore. Get a serious culture (Malick studied his whole life, you have likely just taken a semester of contemporary history) and write a serious book. Otherwise, humbly, forget about "Art" and Malick and just seek to entertain.
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    • Release date
      • March 1, 2017 (Sweden)
    • Country of origin
      • Italy
    • Official site
      • Official Facebook
    • Languages
      • German
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Mi honor se llamaba lealtad
    • Filming locations
      • Pinerolo, Turin, Piedmont, Italy(exterior scenes)
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      1 hour 35 minutes
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.35 : 1

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