A deeply disturbing drama in which preppie Hart is incarcerated in a German prisoner-of-war camp in the bleak winter of 1944/45. The war is almost over, except for professional soldier McNamara, but the arrival of 2 captured black officers stirs the racist pot, and the murder of one POW by another leads to a black man facing a blatantly racist court, a sort of legal lynching. While the plot has a few holes in it, the parallels between the prisoners and their brutal fascist captors reveal they ha
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SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS (1999)
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Against a backdrop of snow and racism in the immediate post-war USA, a young ethnic Japanese is charged with murdering a fellow fisherman off the Pacific coast. By clever use of flashback a tale of love won and lost is revealed. Superb cinematography makes this enigmatic tragedy from the director of "Shine" truly memorable.
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