The Deer Hunter

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Description: The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war drama film about a trio of Russian American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. It is loosely inspired by the German novel Three Comrades (1937), by World War I veteran Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, which follows the lives of a trio of World War I veterans in 1920s Weimar Germany. Like the novel, The Deer Hunter meditates and explores the moral and mental consequences of war violence and politically-manipulated patriotism upon the meaning of friendship, honour, and family in a tightly-knit community and deals with controversial issues such as drug abuse, suicide, infidelity and mental illness. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale and Meryl Streep. The story occurs in southern Vietnam, Pittsburgh and in working-class Clairton, Pennsylvania, a Monongahela River town south of Pittsburgh. ( Edited by GamerGirl)
Link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Deer_Hunter

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