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Gallipoli

From a place you never heard of...a story you'll never forget.

1981 · 1h 52m · PG Drama, History, War
Directed by Peter Weir

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Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

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Rotten

Well acted and, within its limited terms, well made, Gallipoli represents a failure of nerve as well as design.

Richard Schickel, TIME Magazine
Rotten

The central section devoted to training in Egypt sags badly through its crass buddy antics and its crude caricatures of wogs and pommies.

Tom Milne, Time Out
Fresh

Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to the subject. And yet his film has an uncommon beauty, warmth, and immediacy, and a touch of the mysterious, too.

Janet Maslin, New York Times

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