The North Star

1943

Action / Drama / Romance / War

2
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 31% · 3 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Spilled 31% · 100 ratings
IMDb Rating 5.9/10 10 2039 2K

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Plot summary

A Ukrainian village must suddenly contend with the Nazi invasion of June 1941. Later re-edited and released as "Armored Attack."

Director

Lewis Milestone Photo
Lewis Milestone

Top cast

Eric Roberts Photo
Eric Roberts as Grisha Kurin
Tommy Rall Photo
Tommy Rall as Dancing Peasant
Henry Hall Photo
Henry Hall as Farmer
Dana Andrews Photo
Dana Andrews as Kolya Simonov
720p.BluRay
976.01 MB
1280*944
English 2.0
NR
Subtitles us  
23.976 fps
1 hr 46 min
Seeds 1

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by arthur_tafero 6 / 10

Nice Try - No Cigar - The North Star

This film has all the right ingredients; good production values, good actors and a well-known writer and director. It is missing one thing; believablity. A vierer has to believe the story is viable for the story to have any positive effect on the viewer. This story does not seem too realistic. A commune where everyone has plenty of food, is well-dressed and has every member of the family fully contented seems a bit absurd to me. Both Russia and China eventually did away with their commune systems because they were abject failures. So this setting is a complete fantasy. The German intrusions are real; and the resistance is real, but the Russian resistance to the Germans at the beginning of the German invasion was practically negligible; not as fierce as portrayed in this film. The Germans would never have been able to conquer one third of Russia in less than a year unless there was little resistance. So basically, this story is a nice fantasy; but the military resistance of the Russians was minimal in the first year or so. Entertaining as a fantasy, but some people might think it is real.
Reviewed by dmcslack 6 / 10

Well made Hollywood propaganda

The North Star is at least as good a propaganda movie as much of Hollywood's wartime output and the astonishing range of talent that helped in its making makes it important rather than brilliant. While not impossible, it would be difficult for this collection of top drawer movie makers to devise a real dog of a production and even the most rabid anti-commie could not put this movie into the same bag as say 'Hitler, Dead of Alive' or 'The menace of the rising sun'. The North Star was multi Oscar nominated and even factoring in the mores of the period, this cannot be dismissed entirely.Reading the posts on the movie here, it appears to me that some commentators really miss the whole point of US propaganda at the time and condemn The North Star out of context. These responses suggest to me that The North Star's punch has lost none of its original power.
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