#Overlord movies archive#
I spent approximately 3,000 hours in that dark cell between 19.It was during the archival research that I developed the idea of a dramatised feature film about an English soldier who sees his first action on D-Day, interweaving the archive footage to expand and tell the story. He wrote that after narrowing his selection, Cooper was told that it would take nine years to review all the footage in the collection, which included dangerous nitrate film stock. He originally intended to make a documentary about the Overlord Embroidery tapestry. In an 18 January 2008 article he wrote for The Guardian to coincide with the film's re-release, Stuart Cooper described at length the creation of this film. David Warner (actor) as Voice of Authority.This is Tom and the film follows this everyman through his call up to the East Yorkshire Regiment, his training, his meeting a young girl, his journey to France and his death on D-Day at Sword Beach. A blurry image of a soldier running, alone and falling, shot dead, dissolves to a man running down an English lane to his home. Cut to the interior of a landing craft on D-Day, filled with as yet unidentified characters, young soldiers. The film opens with footage taken by the victorious German Army following the Battle of France in 1940 and aerial shots, including Adolf Hitler surveying conquered territory from an aeroplane. “Overlord is not about military heroics on the contrary, it is about the bleakness of sacrifice”, Cooper said.
The film won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize at the 25th Berlin International Film Festival. Set during the Second World War, around the D-Day invasion ( Operation Overlord), the film is about a young British soldier's experiences and his meditations on being part of the war machinery, including his premonitions of death.
Overlord is a 1975 black-and-white British war film written and directed by Stuart Cooper.
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