Castle Keep

Castle Keep

1969 · 105 min · EN · R · 5.7 (59 votes)
Dir. Sydney Pollack · Starring Burt Lancaster, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Peter Falk, Bruce Dern, Patrick O'Neal, Astrid Heeren · Music Michel Legrand

A one-eyed major and his oddball heroes fight a twentieth-century war in a tenth-century castle!

ComedyDramaWar

During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.

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A darkly comic and melancholic war film where grim reality clashes with absurd hope. It feels like a weary, existential shrug against the futility of conflict, set against a crumbling, isolated backdrop.

darkly comicmelancholicgrittyabsurdiststeadyanti-warperiod dramacharacter-drivenwarsurvivalabsurdityfutility
based on novel or bookcastlebattle of the bulge
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