| | | From A Place You've Never Heard Of, Comes A Story You'll Never Forget.
Features: DVD, Collector's Edition
This Special Collector's Edition DVD provides a fascinating new look into the riveting drama that is Gallipoli, the much-acclaimed film directed by Peter Weir (Witness, The Truman Show). Mel Gibson and Mark Lee are electrifying as the two patriotic young army enlistees drawn into the ill-planned and disastrous Battle of Gallipoli in Turkey during World War I. The result is a stirring, unforgettable motion picture.
"A portrait of WWI that's both personal and epic." Scott Weinberg, Efilmcritic.com
"Regarded as one of the very best Australian film's ever made..." Shannon J. Harvey, Sunday Times (Australia)
Editor's Note
A profound study of the friendship of two young Australian men caught up in the murderous First World War. Set on the Turkish front in 1915, this film effectively combines history and drama.
Plot Summary
"Gallipoli" relates the events surrounding the ill-fated World War I battle, in which Australian and New Zealand troops set out to capture Istanbul. But mistakes made by upper-echelon military commanders led to disaster -- in which the army grunts suffered the most.| The film, however, focuses not only on epic clashes, but on the friendships that developed between the soldiers on the field.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Audio: French Dolby Digital Mono | | Entrenched: The Making Of Gallipoli (6 Documentaries) | | Interactive Menus | | New Interviews With Mel Gibson And Peter Weir | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Theatrical Trailer |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Paramount |
| Release Date: 12/13/2005 |
| Running Time: 111 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1981 | | Catalog ID: 036104 | | UPC: 00097360361049 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 1.85:1 |
| Cast & Crew
| Awards |
Golden Globe (1982) | | | , Nominee, Best Foreign Film |
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| | Professional Reviews | New York Times
"...Gibson shows wit, ingenuity and range....Airborne adventure." 08/28/1981 p.C6Uncut
"[E]levated by eye-popping 'scope photography from Russell Boyd..." 11/01/2004 p.158 Entertainment Weekly
"The heartbreaking final scenes of Aussie youths matching their bayonets against machine guns elevate the film to an antiwar masterpiece." -- Grade: A 12/16/2005 p.68 The New York Times 9 of 10
Mr. 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
Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide 9 of 10
Youthful idealists Lee and Gibson enlist in the military, meet their fate in title WWI battle. Engrossing human drama with meticulous direction, striking feel for period detail. Final freeze-frame shot is reminiscent of Robert Capa's classic Spanish Civil War photo of soldier at the moment of death. - Leonard Maltin
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