Word movies this week [UTV]

This week I got the novel opportunity to watch handful of historic movies based on true events in UTV channel, exposing a rare blend of realities and persona. Here are the synopsis of few.

Buenos Aires, 1977

Buenos Aires 1977 is a Spanish movie about four young men among many other, who are kidnapped by Argentinean secret military agents and were exposed to brusque torture, spasm, questioning and captivity for nearly four months. They narrowly escape death and were rewarded with freedom at the end. The movie was based on the testimony from the 2 surviving victims. The movie exposed the true nature of the military regime during 1977 and following years. Argentina was under nasty, brutal and fatal military rule for a while, which led many nationals to find refugee in neighbouring countries and some fled to Europe. Civil war continued to pull down the military rule, and who ever involved in leftist organizations were kidnapped, exiled and murdered.

To End All Wars

An adaptation from the autobiography of Ernest Gordon, sharing the world the events occurred during World War II. Captured by the Japanese forces, the captives are moved to concentration camp in the epicentre of the jungle highly guarded by armed Japanese forces. The captives undergoes heavy torture, brutal beatings, diseases like malaria, no food, . The motive was to build the majestic Burma Railroad in a short period of 18 months. Ernest Gordon inspired by his fellow mates and fulfilling his dream, formed a support group and exchanged knowledge which resulted in the formation of “Jungle University”. He was almost killed by a deadly virus, but survived. His extensive knowledge in philosophy, history and English boasted the fellow mates. He took paramount effort to educate and inspire his fellow mates who have deserted their hopes and faiths. Attacked by the allied forces, the Japanese troop abandons the labour camp and finds in the jungle. Gordon builds a mounting friendship with liberal, kind English speaking Japanese major.

In 1990, both met in the memorial tomb in Thailand and prayed for those died in the labour camp. Gordon joined the Princeton University after returning from war and he was dean for 26 years. The Japanese major become a Buddhist monk in Thailand.

The counterfeiters

The German movie released in 2007, portraying legendary Jewish counterfeiter Salomon Sorowitch, nicknamed “sally”. He was captured by the Nazi and was send to concentration camp at Sachsenhausen during World War II. Delighted by his skills, the Nazi generals introduce him into operation Bernhard, a clandestine effort to crunch and flood the British economy with forged currency printed at the camp. He teams up with a group of Jews estranged from families who are experts in different kinds of paper forgeries, heavily guarded and under the radar of “Hail Hitler” soldiers. No other alternative to life and closed doors of escape from the camp, he successfully develops prototypes of banks note and floods Britain market. To safeguard the fellow Jews he was threatened to develop American dollar negatives. The allied forces attack the camp and the German forces abandon the camp.

The movie won the best foreign language Oscar at 80^th Academy awards in 2008. The movie exposed the brutality of the Nazi forces against the Jews in the concentration camps. Operation Bernhard remains as the one of the biggest forgeries in the history. It produced about three times the British reserve bank.

Lucky Miles

Lucky Miles is an Australian feature film released in 2007, a conspicuous exhibition of continents vast geography and illegal emigration. A bunch of illegal immigrant’s lands somewhere in the vast coastal region and head’s towards Perth, a major port city. Groups are split and wander through the terrain and are lost. Some are caught by the guards and those who escaped experiences horrifying heat and terrain covered with desert sand, gravels and family of cactus.

The film unfolds the illegal migration which is widespread and hostile conditions of those immigrants. The government of Australia has taken proactive measures to stop illegal immigration. It is a warning to those who ............