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Waterloo (1970)

Carjosse

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About a week ago I watched this movie with my grandfather. It is a very historically accurate British-Soviet film about the Battle of Waterloo (of course). It is a truly amazing movie from a plain movie perspective but is also impressive due to the sheer scale of the production. The movie used ~40,000 Red Army conscripts as extras, every extra you see in the movie is a real person trained for months to behave like a Napoleonic era soldier. If this movie was produced today it would be almost entirely CGI, a movie of this scale will never be made again making it even more impressive. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially those who like large scale battles. The Red Army also made the hills and the chateaus you see in the film, the battle scenes were shot in Ukraine.

Here is a trailer:


Here is more information about the battle:
 
Phew!! I was afraid this was a thread about ABBA.
 
Lutherf said:
Phew!! I was afraid this was a thread about ABBA.
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Greetings, Lutherf. :2wave:

:shock: I was just listening to one of their albums today, ABBA Arrival. I hope I wasn't playing it that loud that you heard it in Arizona, :lol: but I do like that album - I got it as a Christmas gift years ago from a friend in England as a box set ... :thumbs:
 
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Carjosse said:
About a week ago I watched this movie with my grandfather. It is a very historically accurate British-Soviet film about the Battle of Waterloo (of course). It is a truly amazing movie from a plain movie perspective but is also impressive due to the sheer scale of the production. The movie used ~40,000 Red Army conscripts as extras, every extra you see in the movie is a real person trained for months to behave like a Napoleonic era soldier. If this movie was produced today it would be almost entirely CGI, a movie of this scale will never be made again making it even more impressive. I highly recommend this to anyone, especially those who like large scale battles. The Red Army also made the hills and the chateaus you see in the film, the battle scenes were shot in Ukraine.

Here is a trailer:


Here is more information about the battle:
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Is this the one with Christopher Plumber as Wellington? I think they actually have it for free on YouTube.

I don't know if I've seen the whole film, but I've certainly watched the battle scenes in their entirety.
 
polgara said:
Greetings, Lutherf. :2wave:

:shock: I was just listening to one of their albums today, ABBA Arrival. I hope I wasn't playing it that loud that you heard it in Arizona, :lol: but I do like that album - I got it as a Christmas gift years ago from a friend in England as a box set ... :thumbs:
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It's a classic, Polgara. Production values years ahead of its time. One of my favourite albums of the era, along with ELO's A New World Record. I've been listening to both in my car just this week. :thumbs:
 
I have this movie in my DVD collection somewhere. The battle sequences are nice because they actually have huge hordes of troops fighting, since there wasnt any CGI back then.
 
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