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The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
An unforgettable story of forty gallant years.
Drama, Romance, War - 1943
8.1
97%
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General Candy, who's overseeing an English squad in 1943, is a veteran leader who doesn't have the respect of the men he's training and is considered out-of-touch with what's needed to win the war. But it wasn't always this way. Flashing back to his early career in the Boer War and World War I, we see a dashing young officer whose life has been shaped by three different women, and by a lasting friendship with a German soldier.

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Rated:
Not Rated
Runtime:
163 min
Release date:
26 Jul 1943
Country:
GB
Languages:
English, French, German
Budget:
$0
Revenue:
$0
Awards:
1 win & 2 nominations

Top Critics Reviews

fresh:
The movie looks past the fat, bald military man with the walrus moustache, and sees inside, to an idealist and a romantic. To know him is to love him.
– Roger Ebert,
Chicago Sun-Times,
19 Nov 2002
fresh:
A 1943 Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger collaboration so unambiguously satirizing the military mind-set that Prime Minister Winston Churchill tried to have it banned.
– J. Hoberman,
Village Voice,
15 Nov 2011
fresh:
Maybe the most wonderfully British movie ever made.
– Joshua Rothkopf,
Time Out New York,
15 Nov 2011
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