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A Soldier's Tale

1988, Movie, R, 99 mins

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An oddly romantic WWII drama set amid the French countryside, with a darkly brooding lover and a compromised heroine, A SOLDIER'S TALE explores the uncomfortable kinship between war and rape. Sergeant Saul Scourby (Gabriel Byrne) is adept at knifing enemy sentries and tells a flustered young recruit whom he has saved, Charlie (Paul Wyett), that feelings have no place in war; it is simply a job to get done. A few scenes later, when he spots Isabella (Marianne Basler), Scourby... read more leave a comment
A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.
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Length: 01:35:00
Posted: 11/16/2009
A British soldier falls in love with a French woman wanted by the resistance for crimes against her country.
Paid | Amazon Video on Demand
Length: 01:35:00
Posted: 11/16/2009
"A Soldier's Tale" is based upon the theater piece by the composer Igor Stravinsky and the playwright C. F. Ramuz, concerning a soldier who, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. This stranger turns out to be the Devil, and the violin an avatar of the soldier's soul, and most of the rest of the story concerns the soldier's attempts to regain his violin/soul.
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Length: 51:00
Posted: 10/19/2008
"A Soldier's Tale" is based upon the theater piece by the composer Igor Stravinsky and the playwright C. F. Ramuz, concerning a soldier who, returning home from war, chances upon a stranger who offers to buy his violin. This stranger turns out to be the Devil, and the violin an avatar of the soldier's soul, and most of the rest of the story concerns the soldier's attempts to regain his violin/soul.
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Length: 51:00
Posted: 1/25/2008
Year: 1988
Rated R

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Cast
Gabriel Byrne: Saul Scourby
Marianne Basler: Belle
Paul Wyett: Charlie
Judge Reinhold: The Yank

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