Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o soldado do exército Arthur James Hamp é acusado de deserção durante a batalha. O oficial designado para defendê-lo em sua corte marcial, Capitão Hargreav... Ler tudoDurante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o soldado do exército Arthur James Hamp é acusado de deserção durante a batalha. O oficial designado para defendê-lo em sua corte marcial, Capitão Hargreaves, descobre que há no caso do que se aparenta.Durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial, o soldado do exército Arthur James Hamp é acusado de deserção durante a batalha. O oficial designado para defendê-lo em sua corte marcial, Capitão Hargreaves, descobre que há no caso do que se aparenta.
- Direção
- Roteiristas
- Artistas
- Indicado para 4 prêmios BAFTA
- 2 vitórias e 7 indicações no total
- Private Sparrow
- (as Jeremy Spencer)
Avaliações em destaque
Producer/director Joseph Losey does a convincing job with this drama, though it moves somewhat slowly until the end. Courtenay comes across as a shell-shocked man who volunteered for the war, and could no longer do battle after seeing his entire unit wasted away. He's commendable and understandable, and this shows in Bogarde's astute performance. The film's point is easily made, with Bogarde's character effectively leading doubters toward a shattering conclusion. The film, and both men, won award recognition.
******* King & Country (9/5/64) Joseph Losey ~ Dirk Bogarde, Tom Courtenay, Leo McKern, Barry Foster
After repeated shellings and engagements with the enemy Pvt. Hamp (Tom Courtnay) is arrested trying to walk back to England from the battlefields of Europe. Put on trial for desertion he and his lawyer Captain Hargreaves (Dirk Borgarde) devise a plan to attempt to save him from the firing squad. With shelling in the distance court convenes.
A filmed play with much shot in close-up along with a smooth and unobtrusive camera movement within the claustrophobic confines of the trenches ( with some telling stills) King and Country is an unrelenting depiction of absurd sacrifice stopping only for a moment to exterminate one with those around him scheduled for the same per order to immediately move out.
Director Losey's anti war tract is one of the most sober and ultimately powerful of an era when anti-war films flourished with wild absurdities from King of Hearts to How I Won the War. His inquisitors drab bureaucrats instead of ogres his stage a rat infested quagmire instead of a chess board floor of a French Château the film resonates with a callous, hopeless and to add insult to injury clumsy rush to justice.
Bogarde's Hargreaves is measured and restrained, his pauses and glances masking incertitude brilliantly. Coutrtnay is outstanding as the born to lose Hamp. Both touching and frustrating he states his case with a warped benign logic. Leo Mc Kern's hostile doctor also register's in a gruff way.
King and Country may not match the scale of All Quiet on the Western Front or Paths of Glory but Losey's deft and tight handling within it's limited confine packs every bit as an emotional punch.
The film has actual photos of dead bodies from the London War Museum throughout the movie. The setting is freezing cold, wet bunkers with lots of mud. The men have been jaded to death and suffering and at times act brutally.
The end of the film is particularly awful, that's the only word I can think of. Not awful as in it's a bad movie, but awful in the situation.
Tom Courtenay does an excellent job as a wide-eyed young man who really doesn't realize what he did or what may happen to him as a result; Leo McKern turns in an excellent performance as a no-nonsense officer. Dirk Bogarde is wonderful as the captain who goes to the mat for his client and comes up against a cruel system that seems to have no understanding of or compassion for human frailty.
Lots of gross stuff in this movie - imagine actually having to endure it. Excellent directing job by Losey, and a thought-provoking film that you won't forget quickly, even though you want to.
Você sabia?
- CuriosidadesDirk Bogarde said this was his personal favorite of his films.
- Erros de gravaçãoThe letter advising Pte Hamp's family of his death said that he had been killed in action. As an executed soldier his family would have been told only that he had died. The family would know that the soldier had been executed because they would not receive a pension.
- Citações
Captain Midgley: A proper court is concerned with law. It's a bit amateur to plead for justice.
- ConexõesFeatured in Dirk Bogarde: By Myself (1992)
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Detalhes
- Data de lançamento
- País de origem
- Idioma
- Também conhecido como
- O Rei e o Cidadão
- Locações de filme
- Hyde Park Corner, Hyde Park, Londres, Inglaterra, Reino Unido(world war one memorial)
- Empresas de produção
- Consulte mais créditos da empresa na IMDbPro
Bilheteria
- Orçamento
- US$ 300.000 (estimativa)
- Tempo de duração
- 1 h 28 min(88 min)
- Cor
- Proporção
- 1.66 : 1