The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) (original) (raw)
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Original title
The Life and Death of Colonel Blimpaka
AKA
- The Adventures of Colonel Blimp
Year
1943
Running time
164 min.
Country
United Kingdom
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Genre
Drama. Comedy. War | Army. Friendship. 1900s. I World War. II World War
Synopsis
Portrays in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man. We meet the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy, a blustering old duffer who seems the epitome of stuffy, outmoded values. Traveling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether: the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy. Through a series of relationships with three women and his lifelong friendship with a German officer, we see Candy's life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honor to modern notions of "total war."
Rankings Position
- #62 Best War Movies/War Film
- #66 Best Movies and TV Series about the Second World War
- #74 Best British Movies
Awards
1945: New York Film Critics Circle: Nom. for Best Film & Best Actress (Deborah Kerr)
1945: National Board of Review (NBR): nominated to Top Films (In alphabetical order).
Critics' reviews
- "A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned."
- "Few other British films from that period seem to mythologize the pre-war period of Churchill's youth and early career quite as potently as Colonel Blimp."
- "Of all the things to be nostalgic about, warfare would seem the least likely candidate, but that's the unusual perspective of this one-of-a-kind 1943 landmark - maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made."
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