12-10-2018, 11:11 PM
Gewehr
Best IDU Classic Film
Released on: December 7, 1986
Genre: War Film
Starring: Urmet Kotka
Directed by: Simon Ibrahimov
Languages: Shot in English, later dubbed in German (1988), Russian (1991), French (1994), and Estonian (1996).
Plot: The film cuts to a shot of a relatively small village, surrounded on all sides by jungle and swampland. The camera pans down to a thatch-roof house, where a group of soldiers are sitting around a radio, smoking. Behind them sits a flag of the former Democratic People's Republic of Shuell, alongside discarded equipment. Following a brief conversation between the soldiers, the radio squeals, and a man shouts over it. The soldiers scrabble for their gear, hurrying off into the muddy foliage in near single-file. Abruptly, one of the soldiers steps on a landmine, and explodes, covering the man closest to him in gore. The blood-covered man looks down, and a shot of the man's dog tags are shown, starting the credits.
The film is about an unknown DPRS soldier, nicknamed Gewehr, and his experiences throughout the Second Revolution, specifically on the Shuellian Colonial State of Iustos, where the conflict has spread to, starting with the trek through the Iustonian swamps, colloquially known as the "Rot March," and ending with the siege of a Republican-held city.
Critical Reception: Upon release, it was viewed as a depressing look at the Second Revolution of Shuell, a conflict that many older military veterans of Shuell have lived through. While realistic for the most part, the deeper parts of the Iustonian jungle are depicted as madness inducing, with strange creatures and odd sights. Although regarded as a classic, even holding a spot in the Shuellian Film Archive's Hall of Fame, some reviewers have criticized the "horrifyingly realistic" gore and many of the slurs used by the soldiers throughout the film.
Best IDU Classic Film
Released on: December 7, 1986
Genre: War Film
Starring: Urmet Kotka
Directed by: Simon Ibrahimov
Languages: Shot in English, later dubbed in German (1988), Russian (1991), French (1994), and Estonian (1996).
Plot: The film cuts to a shot of a relatively small village, surrounded on all sides by jungle and swampland. The camera pans down to a thatch-roof house, where a group of soldiers are sitting around a radio, smoking. Behind them sits a flag of the former Democratic People's Republic of Shuell, alongside discarded equipment. Following a brief conversation between the soldiers, the radio squeals, and a man shouts over it. The soldiers scrabble for their gear, hurrying off into the muddy foliage in near single-file. Abruptly, one of the soldiers steps on a landmine, and explodes, covering the man closest to him in gore. The blood-covered man looks down, and a shot of the man's dog tags are shown, starting the credits.
The film is about an unknown DPRS soldier, nicknamed Gewehr, and his experiences throughout the Second Revolution, specifically on the Shuellian Colonial State of Iustos, where the conflict has spread to, starting with the trek through the Iustonian swamps, colloquially known as the "Rot March," and ending with the siege of a Republican-held city.
Critical Reception: Upon release, it was viewed as a depressing look at the Second Revolution of Shuell, a conflict that many older military veterans of Shuell have lived through. While realistic for the most part, the deeper parts of the Iustonian jungle are depicted as madness inducing, with strange creatures and odd sights. Although regarded as a classic, even holding a spot in the Shuellian Film Archive's Hall of Fame, some reviewers have criticized the "horrifyingly realistic" gore and many of the slurs used by the soldiers throughout the film.
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