Overlord (film)

Overlord is a 1975 blackandwhite film written and directed by Stuart Cooper. Set around the DDay invasion Operation Overlord, Overlord is a war film about a young soldiers meditations on being part of the war machinery, and his premonitions of death. The film was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear Special Jury Prize.

Stuart Cooper had originally intended to film a documentary film about the Overlord embroidery tapestry. As he researched the events of the Normandy landings at the Imperial War Museum he decided on making a film of a young mans journey from call up to coffin.About half of Overlord is contemporary footage shot for the film, and about half of it is archival footage from British training missions and the invasion itself. Cooper and his cinematographer, John Alcott, tried to create a consistent look when filming the contemporary footage and to this end they employed old Kodak film stock and World War IIera original German 1930s military camera lenses. ........

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