The Deer Hunter (1978) Movie Overview

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino 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 German 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, honor, and family in a tightly knit community and deals with controversial issues such as suicide, posttraumatic stress disorder, infidelity and mental illness. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, George Dzundza and Chuck Aspegren. The story takes place in Clairton, a small working class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh and then in Vietnam, somewhere in woodland and in Saigon, during the Vietnam War. It was filmed in the Pittsburgh… Source

• The Deer Hunter Movie Details
• Director: Michael Cimino
• Tagline: Best Picture 1978
• Country: UK , USA
• Run Time: 182 min
• Genre: Drama , War

• Cast Overview
• Robert De Niro as Michael
• John Cazale as Stan
• John Savage as Steven
• Christopher Walken as Nick
• Meryl Streep as Linda
• George Dzundza as John

The Deer Hunter Movie Overview – Yahoo Movies

The Deer Hunter (1978): Epic drama follows the lives of a group of Russian-American friends from a small Pennsylvannia industrial town as they prepare to leave for Vietnam, but when they return from the war, their lives are indelibly changed. Source

The Deer Hunter Movie Review from New York Times

One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino’s epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war’s effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Struc… Source

The Deer Hunter Movie Details from Imdb

Michael, Steven and Nick are young factory workers from Pennsylvania who enlist into the Army to fight in Vietnam. Before they go, Steven marries the pregnant Angela and their wedding-party is also the men’s farewell party. After some time and many horrors the three friends fall in the hands of the Vietcong and are brought to a prison camp in which… Source

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