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'''A Very Long Engagement''' is a 2004 French romantic war movie. It depicts a young woman's desperate search for her fiancée and subsequent discovery that he is one of five soldiers that have been convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines unarmed. It appears that all of them were killed in the subsequent Battle of The Somme, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French Military to deal with those who tried to escape the front during her search and what happened to the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment. | '''A Very Long Engagement''' is a 2004 French romantic war movie. It depicts a young woman's desperate search for her fiancée and her subsequent discovery that he is one of five soldiers that have been convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines unarmed. It appears that all of them were killed in the subsequent Battle of The Somme, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French Military to deal with those who tried to escape the front during her search and what happened to the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment. | ||
Revision as of 11:51, 27 May 2011
A Very Long Engagement is a 2004 French romantic war movie. It depicts a young woman's desperate search for her fiancée and her subsequent discovery that he is one of five soldiers that have been convicted of self-mutilation in order to escape military service during World War I. They are condemned to face near certain death in the no man's land between the French and German trench lines unarmed. It appears that all of them were killed in the subsequent Battle of The Somme, but Mathilde, the fiancée of one of the soldiers, refuses to give up hope and begins to uncover clues as to what actually took place on the battlefield. She discovers the brutally corrupt system used by the French Military to deal with those who tried to escape the front during her search and what happened to the other men who were sentenced to the no man's land as a punishment.
- Actors: Audrey Tautou, Gaspard Ulliel, Jodie Foster, Dominique Pinon, Chantal Neuwirth, Marion Cotillard
- Directors: Jean-Pierre Jeunet
The following guns were used in the movie A Very Long Engagement:
Star Ruby Pistol
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Mauser Gew 98 Rifle
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1914 Hotchkiss Machine Gun
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Mle 1892 Revolver
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Berthier 1907-15 Rifle
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Chamelot-Delvigne Model 1873 Revolver
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MAG58 Light Machine Gun
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Smith & Wesson Fourth Model .32 DA Revolver
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