- Actors: Tom Conti, Susan George, Rod Steiger
- Directors: Rajko Crilic
- Format: Colour, Full Screen, PAL
- Language English
- Classification: 15
- Studio: Avalon International Pictures
- Run Time: 99 minutes
- Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000VT1TPA
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 11,066 in Video (See Top 100 in Video)
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Product Description
AFTER FOUR YEARS OF BRUTAL OCCUPATION, YUGOSLAVIA LIES HELPLESS BENEATH THE CRUSHING HEEL OF THE NAZI JACKBOOT.
PARTISON AND PEASANT ALIKE LIVE IN DAILY FEAR OF ARREST, TORTURE AND EXECUTION.
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This is an unusual film for Ms. George, where she plays a young woman on the run from the Germans with a young child in tow during the Second World War. An unusual character in 'Andrija' (Tom Conti) turns out here to be somewhat of an unlikely hero.
This film is a little 'deceptive' in its slow build up, and really deserves a second viewing to be fully appreciated. It's interesting that George co-produced this gem from the end of the 80s, and that the theme music ( also composed by George) gives the movie some deep and emotional charge.
Also stars Rod Steiger.
For some reason only ever available on Video. It's time they released a 'Susan George Box Set' included some of these lesser known Pictures.
This film is a little 'deceptive' in its slow build up, and really deserves a second viewing to be fully appreciated. It's interesting that George co-produced this gem from the end of the 80s, and that the theme music ( also composed by George) gives the movie some deep and emotional charge.
Also stars Rod Steiger.
For some reason only ever available on Video. It's time they released a 'Susan George Box Set' included some of these lesser known Pictures.
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Review: THAT SUMMER OF WHITE ROSES
28 July 2011
This is a unique and gripping wartime drama, set in Yugoslavia during the final months of the German occupation at the end of World War Two. It was filmed on location in Yugoslavia, and most of the actors (other than the stars) are Yugoslavian; this gives the film authenticity, since the adult actors would have grown up with stories from parents, telling about the German occupation. The movie focuses on a lifeguard at a summer lake resort. German troops occupy the nearby town, but they are preparing to retreat soon back to Germany. The Yugoslav lifeguard rescues and resuscitates a middle-aged near-death drowning victim, who survives. But the victim turns out to be a high-ranking German S.S. officer. The Germans hold an award ceremony for the lifeguard, who is then given a medal for saving the life of the S.S. officer. The award is reported, with photos, in the local newspaper. The lifeguard then becomes an outcast in his own community, labeled as an enemy collaborator. His neighbors ostracize him, yet he had no prior knowledge of the victim's identity at the time when he saved the victim. No other war movie has developed this theme in the way this drama does. I am puzzled, though, whether "white roses" has a symbolic meaning. Nowhere in the movie were white roses mentioned or shown. Perhaps "white roses" denotes treason or disloyalty?? Tropical Steve, New Mexico.
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