The Young Lions
The film follows three soldiers as they endure the crucible of World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.
26 September 1916, San Bernardino, California, USA
16 January 1938, Youngstown, Ohio, USA
9 January 1925, Somerville, New Jersey, USA
5 February 1915, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
26 July 1925, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 12, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany
26 January 1921, London, England, UK
17 October 1920, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
8 January 1903, Redfield, South Dakota, USA
21 August 1901, Los Angeles, California, USA
4 June 1932, Detroit, Michigan, USA
April 1, 1894 in Wisconsin, USA
22 March 1933, Lidingö, Stockholms län, Sweden
10 April 1916, Horden, Durham, England, UK
13 October 1932, Paris, France
15 January 1901, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
28 January 1910, Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
10 August 1920, Los Angeles, California, USA
June 23, 1946 in Berlin, Germany
December 4, 1904 in Tempelburg, Pomerania, Germany [now Czaplinek, Zachodniopomorskie, Poland]
5 February 1933, Irvington, New Jersey, USA
August 6, 1919 in Bolivar County, Mississippi, USA
8 December 1930, Vienna, Austria
24 February 1909, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
18 June 1923, Newark, New Jersey, USA
May 5, 1912 in Brooklyn, New York, USA
26 July 1901, New York City, New York, USA
July 13, 2004
All three stars shine and give this film a luster despite periodic breakdowns in the way the episodic story was told.
November 28, 2008
Despite major departures from Irwin Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's film is an enjoyable, well executed WWII melodrama with top-notch turns from Marlon Brando as the sympathetic Nazi officer and Montgomery Clift as the shy Jewish-American soldier.
July 25, 2003
Belíssimo filme sobre a segunda guerra, mostrando ponto de vistas de soldados de ambos os lados do front. Brando, obviamente, assume o papel de alemão - e sua humanidade faz contraponto aos horrores que testemunha.
