During a few days in 1940, from may 27 to june 4, the allies forces were surrounded by the nazi army in the beaches of Dunkirk and were trying to leave for the English coasts, a dangerous task. For the first time, Christopher Nolan made a war movie after the huge successes of his previous movies in various genres: Interstellar, The Dark Knight orInception.
Dunkirk is the English translation for the northern French city, Dunkerque.
Written and directed by Christopher Nolan
With: Tom Hardy, Mark Rylance, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy…
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Release date in Estonia: july 21
Dunkirk follows the “Dynamo Operation”, the evacuation of the British Forces and the crossed stories of soldates, marines, pilotes or civilians in the chaos of bombings. Among them three brave and resourceful soldiers will board successfully but they do not know that the worst is coming: the crossing of the Pas-De-Calais detroit.
For this new movie, Nolan said that his references were some French Classics films such as The Wages of Fear (Henri-Georges Clouzot) and A Man Escaped (Robert Bresson) but also great directors from the silent film era: Murnau and von Stroheim. Finally, beforing shooting the movie, he organized a screening for all his crew of The Thin Red Line, directed by Terrence Malick.