Churchill Page #5

Synopsis: June 1944. Allied Forces stand on the brink: a massive army is secretly assembled on the south coast of Britain, poised to re-take Nazi-occupied Europe. One man stands in their way: Winston Churchill. Behind the iconic figure and rousing speeches: a man who has faced political ridicule, military failure and a speech impediment. An impulsive, sometimes bullying personality - fearful, obsessive and hurting. Fearful of repeating, on his disastrous command, the mass slaughter of 1915, when hundreds of thousands of young men were cut down on the beaches of Gallipoli. Obsessed with fulfilling historical greatness: his destiny. Exhausted by years of war and plagued by depression, Churchill is a shadow of the hero who has resisted Hitler's Blitzkrieg. Should the D-Day landings fail, he is terrified he'll be remembered as an architect of carnage. Political opponents sharpen their knives. General Eisenhower and Field Marshal Montgomery are increasingly frustrated by Churchill's attempts to stop
Director(s): Jonathan Teplitzky
Production: Cohen Media Group
 
IMDB:
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PG
Year:
2017
105 min
$1,279,681
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- Winston!

- I just can not stand it.

- For heaven's sake.

It's not working.

- I will not tolerate that of you.

- I can not answer that!

- That's murder!

- Sit down.

I can not do the rest of mine

To have life on the conscience.

You have no choice.

Do you hear me? I can

so no longer live.

Is this a threat?

When we wake up tomorrow,

20,000 young men could be dead.

You're drunk.

This is the only thing,

which brings me peace.

Well, it does not work.

You should be ashamed of yourself.

Can you please do that

Send service maid?

There has been an accident.

No, everyone is doing well.

Only one plate was broken.

Yes thank you.

And please tell Feldmarschall Smuts,

that I want to see Him. Thank you.

How is he?

Come.

Winston?

Winston.

Sharing the ships

in the English Channel.

They set sail at 1700 hours.

I thought I can help you,

Preparing your future speeches.

He gets really depressed

and then simply solidifies.

Everything you say, it seems

just make things worse.

just a few weeks into the country.

- He must speak to the nation tomorrow.

- I know.

Either the profit

of the war

or that we are just thousands

People have killed meaninglessly.

Oh, ever.

Oh oh oh

- Are you all right?

- Yes of course.

It must also be hard for you.

I wish he'd know.

Well, we must

simply give our best.

Let me talk to him.

I thought, when we get together,

we can help you all,

to write the speech for tomorrow.

This is a very important speech, Winston.

If you focus on it,

you may be the

Apply energy to it.

How shall we begin, Miss Garrett?

Uh ... ah!

"Here is the Prime Minister."

"Overnight the united

Armed Forces of the Allies "

"to air, sea and land

a comprehensive attack "

"to the German positions

the north coast of France. "

"This is the beginning of the

largest operation of the war. "

"She will push back the Nazis

and free France. "

"Thousands of brave young men

are landed with a ship's fleet. "

"They have secured the beaches and

the German lines pushed back. "

- You do not know.

- What?

That's all for me

too familiar, Smuts.

I've seen it before.

Gallipoli ... 1915th

An enormous amphibious landing.

A frontal attack on one

effectively entrenched army.

We had a great plan,

Kitchener and I.

- This is not 1915!

But the operation was truncated,

through the petty

Circumcision of the commanders.

"Here a dozen ships less.

Do not send any additional divisions. "

"You do not need so much explosives."

I tried to stop it.

Oh, I've really tried.

It should...

It should be ...

not a big deal.

We would also have these men naked

to these beaches.

Warfare has developed.

You have learned from your experiences.

A quarter of a million men were

was massacred at Gallipoli.

The Empire blamed me.

I had the responsibility.

But no one accused

me more than I myself.

If it had been successful,

you would have been celebrated as a hero.

But it was a bust!

I sent men to death!

Hundreds, thousands!

My hands are soaked in their blood.

The men do theirs

Duty and we do ours.

- We have to live with guilt.

- But we live,

and the commanders have

still learned nothing.

They do not want to learn anything at all.

They remain the battlefields

away and do not see the price.

From sniper rifles

outstretched eyes.

Muddled legs,

Blood on the sea spray.

The men,

they have it!

Half of the men on these ships

will be rotten corpses tomorrow.

That's enough now!

My fiance is on

one of these ships.

I think so at least.

He could not tell me exactly.

What is the degree of service?

He is an upper rostrum.

On a destroyer.

Arthur. Arthur Clayton.

W-How did you get to know each other?

We are together in

Portsmouth grew up.

He said he cares

to me and my mother.

My father was in the first war.

That still goes after him.

He can hardly be used for work.

Arthur says we're looking for his

Return a cottage by the sea.

We fill it with children ...

and let the door roses grow.

I want to believe I do not end like this

like my mother and her sisters.

All their men are dead

or damaged or paralyzed.

I want to believe,

that nothing happens to him.

That nothing happens to him.

I do not want to hear,

that the man I love,

in a few hours could be dead.

And I do not want to hear it from you.

I thought you were

most courageous man in England.

No.

You have every right.

Come. You sit down.

Thank you.

I have to dress.

I need your help.

What are you talking about?

My duty.

G-Are you going?

I can not, right?

I know I got you

neglected -

for some time already.

This war requires everything

and it is not exactly easy,

to be a leader.

It is also not easy,

to be married to one.

I should be behind you and

support you as needed -

with good humor and

endless friendliness.

Sometimes I wish,

I could live my own life.

Would you do that?

I had to learn,

with your edges.

I have often asked myself,

whether there is another man.

- Would that bother you?

- And how.

I do not have you

happy, right?

At times you really have that.

But now...

Win, I do not know,

how I should help you,

if ... if you do not understand,

what you have to do.

The women's helper corps.

We should not let them wait.

No. No, I ... I'll go.

- Briggs.

- sir.

Do you already have one

Feedback from the Navy?

Yes, sir. Oberfhnrich Clayton is

on one of the ships to Juno beach.

They are on the first move.

There will be strong bombardment by the

Germans expected, sir. I'm sorry.

- Thank you, Briggs.

- sir.

They are already half way.

So many young men.

This is like the last war.

They are almost still children.

They grew up with the war.

They are brave.

Too young to know fear.

What will you say tomorrow?

No idea.

That depends on the messages.

No it does not.

No matter what happens tonight,

you must give them hope.

Even if 20,000 men die,

you can get their wives and mothers

and let children not believe,

her death would have been in vain.

You must stand by them,

their victims.

Let them believe that with God,

they will win this war.

And I'll do it with them.

For that is my duty.

Not true?

Could you be without me

speak with the women 's assistant?

I must write this speech.

Clem?

I have always fought.

That is what makes me.

If I do that,

when I take this speech,

I will not fight any more.

No, you will not.

Who will I be,

when all this is over?

If we win or it

to a disaster?

What will I be,

if we do not fight anymore?

You will always be the man,

who has carried us there.

- Wow wow.

- Wow wow.

Miss Garrett!

Sir.

Very good, Miss Garrett. Thank you.

Winston, just came news.

- The landings?

- No, London.

The Luftwaffe is probably the

new V-missiles.

We should

Prepare the air protection bin.

We have the aircraft,

to shoot them?

We try it,

but these missiles have no pilots.

They are incredibly fast.

If Hitler thinks,

he can so discourage us,

then it is wrong. Miss Garrett,

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