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I know this is in German but it's a great Film. Remember i was in Hospital in a room with a vet from Stalingrad. Was horrific what they went through. Was a nice old guy though.
 

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Papillion, although not a war film, the most recent movie has Papillion with a legionnaires head tattooed on his chest. For those who haven't been to 3 REI, yet. Devils island is not surrounded by cliffs at all. So Papillion's great escape by counting the number of waves can be classed as
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I know this is in German but it's a great Film. Remember i was in Hospital in a room with a vet from Stalingrad. Was horrific what they went through. Was a nice old guy though.

That's where we lost the war ?
 

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Papillion, although not a war film, the most recent movie has Papillion with a legionnaires head tattooed on his chest. For those who haven't been to 3 REI, yet. Devils island is not surrounded by cliffs at all. So Papillion's great escape by counting the number of waves can be classed as
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? Hah, you don't say.. Interesting information, hate when they 'adapt' the story . I loved Hoffman and Newman version, looking forward to see the new movie.
original:

remake:
 

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Honestly. ...nothing can compare to the duo Hoffman and Mac the Waen
Non
The Masters can not be mastered
If so
It's my existence down the drain
Papillon 2
Is nowt other than commercial Holly wood crap, made in Usless Slobby Arses holes land
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When you dislike a film or song
Always inclu : " it's too far commercial"
There's no escape from that phrase
 

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If was paying for a ticket to see it it would bother me. Thank you internet ....
 

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Really isn't worth it, belive me
When it's crap it should be said so
If not
Define me the word, 'critic'
 
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Even if he did make up some Stories to juice it up a bit...life must have been brutal at that time...
 

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French Guyane get's too much press for the forced labour camps compared to the Nouvelle Calédonie (new scotland by cpt Cook)
Just as hard
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Papillon was not the most famous prisonner in french Guyane, imo
The capitaine Dreyfus was (Google it and compare to Mata Hari. ..there is a common point if you study the 2 cases)
 
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Papillon was not the most famous prisonner in french Guyane, imo
The capitaine Dreyfus was (Google it and compare to Mata Hari. ..there is a common point if you study the 2 cases)
yeah..i saw a film about him. He got pardoned at the end i believe.
 

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yeah..i saw a film about him. He got pardoned at the end i believe.
Is that the one in which E.Zola appears in white suit at the trail . J'acuse an all that? I saw that one. Funny , he got pardoned - was he guilty?
 

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Non. .was set up to save french army officials embrasement. ..same for Mata Hari. ...
Saint Cyr has a lot to answer to
They never, ever admit their guilt. ..so
When in Aubange in front of the Gestapo. Stfu...i didn't do it and i wasn't there. Hard as nails
 

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Has anyone seen this one (been trying to find it online, but no luck) Looks intriguing...

Hmmmmm, its a local South African movie. Not sure if its out yet.
According to the South African government the recces don't exist. Unofficially there are 2 Recce units, the 4th Reconnaissance (Specialises in amphibious warfare)the 5th Reconnaissance (SpecialIsing in Land operations), their motto's are "Iron fist from the sea" and "we fear naught but God." Takes almost 2 years to be fully badged and operational, some years there are no successful candidates in selection. A recce holds the number 7 spot of longest sniper kill (2.1km in the DRC 2013).

On a side note the recces and 32 battalion were the only non racially segregated units in the Apartheid days with the SADF.
 
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