Paths of Glory

Stanley Kubrick · 1957 CE · Film · Modern / American · Contemporary

A French general orders an impossible attack on a German position in 1916, and when it fails he demands that men be tried for cowardice. Three soldiers are picked more or less at random, and their colonel, a lawyer in peacetime, defends them at the court-martial. The machinery of honor run in reverse.

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• parallels ↑ Antigone
  Sophocles · c. 441 BCE · Play

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