The Young Lions
The film follows three soldiers as they endure the crucible of World War II. The German officer Christian Diestl approves less and less of the war. Jewish-American Noah Ackerman deals with antisemitism at home and in the army while entertainer Michael Whiteacre transforms from playboy to hero.
14 July 1898, Reval, Russian Empire [now Tallinn, Estonia]
13 October 1932, Paris, France
28 December 1913, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
5 August 1914, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
25 May 1931, Niagara Falls, New York, USA
28 January 1910, Stanislau, Galicia, Austria-Hungary
13 August 1895, Eastman, Georgia, USA
January 28, 1896 in Grodno, Poland, Russian Empire [now Hrodna, Belarus]
6 July 1888, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
21 August 1901, Los Angeles, California, USA
29 February 1920, Perth Amboy, New Jersey, USA
19 May 1922, Berlin, Germany
11 February 1932, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
24 November 1899, Vienna, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
22 February 1911, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
March 5, 1890 in Antwerp, Antwerp, Belgium
5 February 1915, Lynn, Massachusetts, USA
26 December 1902, San Juan, Puerto Rico
14 December 1923, Los Angeles, California, USA
15 January 1901, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
April 1, 1894 in Wisconsin, USA
June 23, 1946 in Berlin, Germany
19 August 1927, Beaumont, Texas, USA
3 December 1900, Illinois, USA
June 12, 1929 in Düsseldorf, Germany
6 March 1916, Los Angeles, California, USA
December 12, 1931 in Harvey, Illinois, USA
28 November 1933, Redding Ridge, Connecticut, USA
July 13, 2004
All three stars shine and give this film a luster despite periodic breakdowns in the way the episodic story was told.
July 25, 2003
Belíssimo filme sobre a segunda guerra, mostrando ponto de vistas de soldados de ambos os lados do front. Brando, obviamente, assume o papel de alemão - e sua humanidade faz contraponto aos horrores que testemunha.
November 28, 2008
Despite major departures from Irwin Shaw's novel, Edward Dmytryk's film is an enjoyable, well executed WWII melodrama with top-notch turns from Marlon Brando as the sympathetic Nazi officer and Montgomery Clift as the shy Jewish-American soldier.
