The artistic masterpiece about love, war and comradeship from the celebrated creators of "The Red Shoes" and "A Matter of Life and Death."
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Powell and Pressburger&39;s first Technicolor masterpiece The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp (1943) transcends its narrow wartime propaganda remit to portray in warm-hearted detail the life and loves of one extraordinary man The film&39;s clever narrative structure first presents us with the imposingly rotund General Clive Wynne-Candy of the Home Guard (Roger Livesey in his greatest screen performance) a blustering old buffer with spreading handlebar moustache and stomach to match Confronted by a youthful regular army Captain he seems the epitome of stuffy outmoded values But travelling backwards 40 years we see a different man altogether the young and dashing officer "Sugar" Candy just returned from earning a Victoria Cross in the Boer War Through a series of affecting relationships with three women (all played to perfection by Deborah Kerr) and his touching lifelong friendship with a German officer (Anton Wallbrook) we see Candy&39;s life unfold and come to understand how difficult it is for him to adapt his sense of military honour to modern notions of "total war"
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