ESCAPE TO VICTORY (full review at Screen Realm)

Escape To Victory (or simply Victory if you are more familiar with the prosaic US and Australian title) is a 1981 World War II / sports movie meld from legendary director John Huston. Or to put it another way, Escape To Victory is the greatest sports movie ever made.

Loosely based on a 1962 Hungarian film by the name of Two Half-Times in Hell (Két félidő a pokolban) aka The Last Goal, the story has its roots in a remarkable real-life series of games known as The Game of Death aka The Death Match, which took place in 1941 and saw F.C. Dynamo Kiev trounce a team of Nazis.

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IMDB: Escape To Victory

SEE YOU UP THERE (AU REVOIR LA-HAUT) (full review at Screen Realm)

In 1918 as the First World War edges to a close, on verge of armistice, Edouard Péricourt (Nahuel Pérez Biscayart) and Albert Maillard (Albert Dupontel) are ordered, along with the rest of their company, to undertake one last foray into No-Mans Land.  Their commanding officer Henri d'Aulnay-Pradelle (Laurent Lafitte), sends his charges into the firing line of the Somme, where Edouard saves Alberts life. But as the two prepare to retreat Edouard is injured in an explosion which tears away the bottom of his face, leaving him permanently disfigured.

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IMDB: See You Up There