Poster

Lost Battalion, The

Year

2001

Genre

Action, Drama, War

Country

USA, Luxembourg

Director

Russell Mulcahy

Writer

James Carabatsos

Actors

Ricky Schroder, Phil McKee, Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan, Adam James, Daniel Caltagirone, Michael Goldstrom, André Vippolis, Rhys Miles Thomas, Arthur Kremer, Adam Kotz, Justin Scot, Anthony Azizi, George Calil, Wolf Kahler

Description

In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege. ------- As the First World War draws to a close, American troops penetrate deep into German held French territory, under pressure from French and British allies to advance quickly and smash the last of the German Army in France. "The Lost Battalion" is the true story of a group of 800 American soldiers, attached to the 77th American Division, who were ordered to advance into the Argonne Forest, against heavy German resistance, and hold their position at whatever the cost.

Comments

Duration

89 minutes (at 25 frames per second)

Filesize

527 MB

Video

DivX 5 - resolution: 640x368

Audio