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Plot. German ski instructor Christian Diestl is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity and social mobility to Germany, so when war breaks out he joins the army, becoming a lieutenant. Dissatisfied with police duty in Paris, he requests to be transferred and is assigned to the North African campaign front.
Synopsis. German ski instructor Christian Diestl (Marlon Brando) is hopeful that Adolf Hitler will bring new prosperity and social mobility to Germany. He detests living on tips from foreigners in his own country. So, when war breaks out, he joins the army, becoming a lieutenant.
The Young Lions: Directed by Edward Dmytryk. With Marlon Brando, Montgomery Clift, Dean Martin, Hope Lange. The lives of three young men, a German and two Americans, during WWII.
- (9K)
- Action, Drama, War
- Edward Dmytryk
- 1958-04-02
Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1948. Plot Summary. Irwin Shaw’s war novel The Young Lions (1948) is about the struggles of three men, Austrian Christian Diestl and Americans Michel Whitacre and Noah Ackerman, from very different backgrounds who fight in World War II.
When Nazi fortunes turn at the battle of El Alamein, Christian learns the brutal lessons of survival during a series of retreats. First in North Africa, then...
Oct 21, 2013 · The Young Lions is an epic story of World War II that focuses on the lives of three soldiers, one German and two Americans. Based on the best selling novel of the same name by Irwin Shaw, it feels like a transitionary WWII film in that it combines the heroism of earlier war films with a distinctively anti-war message of the war movies to come ...
The Young Lions, American war film, released in 1958, that examines how World War II affects the lives of three disparate young soldiers. One of the movie’s central characters is Christian Diestl (played by Marlon Brando), an idealistic young German who willingly joins the military because of his.
