The true story of Operation Market Garden, the Allies attempt, in September 1944, to hasten the end of WW2 by driving through Belgium and Holland into Germany. The idea was for US airborne divisions to take the towns of Eindhoven and Nijmegen and a British airborne division, reinforced by a Polish airborne brigade, to take the town of Arnhem. They would be reinforced, in due course and in turn, by the British XXX Corps, land-based and driving up from the British lines in the south. The key to the operation was the bridges, as if the Germans held or blew them, the paratroopers could not be relieved. Faulty intelligence, Allied high command hubris and stubborn German resistance would ensure that Arnhem was a bridge too far.
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A Bridge Too Far (1977)
Nederlands
Het is tegen het einde van de Tweede Wereldoorlog.
De Duitsers hebben het meeste van Frankrijk verloren en de geallieerden troepen besluiten om hun de beslissende trap te geven.
Ze plannen om duizenden soldaten te droppen in Nederland en houden daar een paar sleutelplaatsen vast, tot versterking aankomt.
De belangrijkste plaats is de brug bij Arnhem; wanneer deze is veroverd, kan deze alles blokkeren van het westen van Duitsland.
English
It's late 1944, and the Allied armies are confident they'll win the World War II and be home in time for Christmas.
What's needed, says British general Bernard Law Montgomery, is a knockout punch, a bold strike through Holland,
where German troops are spread thin, that will put the Allies into Germany.
Paratroops led by British major general Robert Urquhart and American brigadier general James Gavin
will seize a thin road and five bridges through Holland.
Spotinformatie
Source............: Retail
Formaat...........: DVD5
Video.............: PAL
Audio.............: English DD5.1
Genre.............: Oorlog
Subs..............: Dutch, English, German, Danish, French, Swedich, Portuguese, Polish, Finnish, Spanish, Norwegian
Menu..............: No
jaar uitgave......: 1977
Cover & label.....: Yes
Audio.............: English & spoken
Speelduur.........: 175 minuten
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075784/
http://www.moviemeter.nl/film/170
