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Oh! What a Lovely War

1969·144 min

Oh! What a Lovely War

Directed by Richard Attenborough

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The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

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Laurence Olivier

Field Marshal Sir John French

Vanessa Redgrave

Sylvia Pankhurst

Music Hall Star

Field Marshall Sir Douglas Haig

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Director of Photography

Richard Attenborough

Producer

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Joan Littlewood

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Bertie Smith

Maurice Roëves

George Smith

President Poincare

Nurse

Drunk Lance Corporal

Aide to Field-Marshal Haig

Stephen

Jean-Pierre Cassel

French Colonel

Gen. von Moltke

Count Leopold Von Berchtold

Emperor Franz Josef

Kaiser Wilhelm II

Michael Redgrave

Gen. Sir Henry Wilson

Ralph Richardson

Sir Edward Grey

Eleanor

Staff Officer in Gassed Trench

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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969) is about the working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.

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Richard Attenborough directed Oh! What a Lovely War (1969).

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