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  2. Paths of Glory is based loosely on the true story of the Souain corporals affair when four French soldiers were executed in 1915 during World War I under General Géraud Réveilhac for failure to follow orders.

  3. How Kubrick’s Paths of Glory Turns the “Anti-War” Film Inside Out. French filmmaker François Truffaut is quoted as saying, “There’s no such thing as an anti-war film.”. The widely-accepted interpretation of his comment is that in giving films the “big screen treatment”—portraying epic battle scenes in heroic and graphic ...

  4. Feb 25, 2005 · Stanley Kubrick‘s “Paths of Glory” (1957) closes with a scene that doesn’t seem organic to the movie. We’ve seen harrowing battlefield carnage, a morally rotten court-martial, French army generals corrupt and cynical beyond all imagining, and now what do we see?

  5. May 29, 2022 · Paths of Glory really is a testament to the unwavering humanity and fortitude of the human spirit. This is Kubrick at his most humanistic. Every inch of this film is filled with a potent...

  6. May 1, 2014 · In dealing with a farcically tragic French court-martial during the First World War, Kubrick’s no-holds-barred approach went beyond the conventions of the anti-war movie to proffer a coherent, persuasively acerbic and timeless vision of human interaction.

  7. Aug 31, 2024 · Paths of Glory, American war film, released in 1957, that elevated its young director, Stanley Kubrick, to international prominence. Its controversial portrayal of the French military prevented it from being shown in several European countries for years.

  8. Paths of Glory (1957) is a masterful, unsentimental, classic anti-war film about World War I. It was 28 year-old Stanley Kubrick's fourth feature-length film (Kubrick served as its director and co-writer with Calder Willingham (screenwriter for Little Big Man (1970)) and blacklisted crime novelist Jim Thompson), but it was his first major ...

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