Plot Summary

The action of cinematographic novel unfolds in 1916 on the Western front. Colonel DAX commanded an infantry regiment of the French army. For two years the allies are trying to turn the tide of the war with the Germans. Head of corps General orders Brulard divisional General Miro to attack an impregnable enemy position, called the Ant hill. The failure of the operation was obvious initially, but when the attack ended in complete failure, the General ordered be tried and shot for cowardice three people. Colonel DAX tried in vain to protect soldiers selected at random. They gave their lives to cover up the stupidity and ambitions of his superiors

Did You Know?

The film is based on the novel by Humphrey Cobb.

In 1992, the film was listed in the national register the most important films in the history of the United States.

The film was shot in the vicinity of Munich, castle Schleissheim.

The idea of the film came from Kubrick during his cooperation with Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in the mid-1950s when he proposed to James B. Harris to adapt a book that a teenager found in his father's library,- "Paths of Glory" Humphrey Cobb (1935). In the heart of the book lay the true facts related to the shooting in Swine a few soldiers from the regiment Jareau Revyaka like the Roman decimation. The creation of the novel Cobb inspired published in 1934 in the New York Times article, which reported that the French court decided to pay the two survivors of soldiers ' widows compensation in the amount of about seven cents each.

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer rejected the draft of Kubrick, and then the screenplay came to Kirk Douglas. He said he was ready to play a major role and is taken to convince United Artists to Finance and laminating the film on the condition that Harris and Kubrick give film production company Bryna Productions of Douglas, and Kubrick take another five movies with Bryna Productions, two of which will play Douglas.

"Paths of glory" did not fit into the official position of the French and Belgian authorities, who sought not to publicize the shameful pages of the First world war. In these countries the film was made with the car. Germany joined the boycott so as not to spoil relations with the French, and Spain — in connection with the rejection of the ideas of pacifism, militaristic regime of Franco. Ultimately, these bans were lifted only in the late 1970s.

In this film Kubrick first used one of his favorite tactics: the seemingly endless camera movement, which opens all new and new details. This camera almost 10 minutes goes along the trenches, which are for free movement of the crew had to make a third wider than in reality (180 cm instead of 120 cm).

The real fame and actuality, the film was acquired only with the beginning of the war in Vietnam. During the 1960s, the tape has a reputation of probably the best anti-war film (this opinion is shared by, in particular, Steven Spielberg), and kirk Douglas in the 1960s began to call the role of Colonel DAX's best in his acting career.

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