Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #32733 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-01-09
• Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
• Aspect ratio: 1.78:1
• Format: PAL
• Original language: English
• Subtitled in: English
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 87 minutes

Synopsis
Based on a true story of heroism and sacrifice, SAINTS AND SOLDIERS was an acclaimed hit on the film festival circuit, winning over 10 best film awards around the country. In some of the most vicious days of World War II, four American soldiers survive a massacre of prisoners and remain trapped behind enemy lines. When they encounter a hiding British officer with valuable intelligence information, the group decides to try and sneak back into friendly territory with the data. However, that proposition is rife with difficulties: the group is mostly unarmed, the weather is freezing cold, they have no food, and the woodlands are crawling with German soldiers. Can each of the men overcome their fear and the odds to deliver the information that may save hundreds of Allied lives? SAINTS AND SOLDIERS is an independently made war film which proves that verisimilitude and emotional impact in the genre is not entirely the province of Hollywood.

Customer Reviews

Fades quickly from memory
This is a movie which is o.k. for a single viewing and little more. It is certainly not based on a true story - although it takes into consideration certain real events such as the Malmedy Massacre and indeed the Battle of the Bulge. The story itself and the main characters are fiction. It is annoying if you know your history well then the timeline is distorted and the great secret intelligence the RAF Officer has obtained about the forthcoming invasion is rather redundant since the invasion started before the Malmedy Massacre and Allied High Command would have been painfully aware of it by now. And that is setting aside several other inconsistencies of less importance.

Added to that none of these inconsistencies needed to be there because the story is about a small group of soldiers and tries to tell the story of how they cope with the horror that is war. For such a story you could have had the background facts correct. As a story of a small group of men there is little new, such stories have been told before and continue to be told and this one fades quickly from memory.

It is worthy of note that this movie does very well with uniforms and hardware considering the tiny budget, around 1 million $ US and it is watchable, it just isn't a keeper - and I normally collect War Movies.

For you, ze var is ova!
I bought this film yesterday, and watched it in the evening. I WAS BLOWN AWAY!!! I thought this was an incredible film, and justly desereved the 11 international film awards it won (im waiting for the oscars to roll in). I thought the actors put in fantastic performances as their respective characters, and thankfully the corny line that serves as my title appears nowhere in the film. I especially liked the way the characters devloped throughout the film.
The film is not a proper war film, and the characters spend quite a lot of time walking through snowy woods and falling through the roofs of snowed-in houses, but the gun battles that do feature are excelent!
Buy this now if you want a dramatic, emotional war film that will be the best you have ever seen!

Dreadful
I just have to start off taking issue with the reviewer who put this nonsense on the same level as Saving Private Ryan. What?

Anyway, I was laughing out loud after about 10 minutes into this "film". The dialogue is amongst the silliest I've ever heard. I would put it on a par with Ben Affleck's infamous "someone get me into a damn plane" speech.

The action scenes are more Keystone Cops than Omaha Beech, and there is no attempt at any kind of realism.

There simply is NO plot of worthy mention, just a bunch of Americans trying to dodge German soldiers in the Ardennes forest. By the end of the film, after a ludicrously short 80 minutes, I was left totally bemused by what I had just witnessed.

If you are looking for a film version of "Band of Brothers", please look elsewhere, because this was truly awful.