Question: What year did this romantic comedy-drama film about World War II debut that has a director with a close association with Ennio Morricone ?

text: List of World War II films since 1990
Early 2000s

Below is an incomplete list of fictional feature films or miniseries released since 1990 which feature events of World War II in the narrative.
Year Country Main title ( Alternative titles ) Original title ( Original script ) Director Battles , campaigns , events depicted
2000 Canada Germany United Kingdom Bonhoeffer : Agent of Grace  Eric Till German Lutheran pastor and martyr , Dietrich Bonhoeffer
2000 China Devils on the Doorstep Guizi lai le ( 鬼子来了 ) Jiang Wen Sino-Japanese War
2000 Czech Republic Divided We Fall Musíme si pomáhat Jan Hřebejk Collaboration and resistance under German occupation of Czechoslovakia
2000 Italy Johnny the Partisan Il partigiano Johnny Guido Chiesa Partisan warfare in North Italy
2000 Poland Judgement of Franciszek Klos ( TV ) Wyrok na Franciszka Kłosa Andrzej Wajda Collaboration under German occupation of Poland
2000 Malaysia Lt. Adnan Leftenan Adnan Aziz M. Osman Adnan Bin Saidi and the Battle of Pasir Panjang
2000 Italy Malena Malèna Giuseppe Tornatore Romance/Comedy-drama . Sicilian woman whose husband is conscripted into Italian service , 1940
2000 Philippines Markova : Comfort Gay Tagalog please Gil Portes Drama based on Walter Dempster , Jr. , account of last surviving comfort gay from Japanese occupation of Philippines
2000 Canada United States Nuremberg ( TV miniseries )  Yves Simoneau Nuremberg Trials
2000 Italy The Sky Is Falling Il cielo cade Andrea Frazzi Antonio Frazzi German occupation in Tuscany and the murder of Albert Einstein 's relatives
2000 Czech Republic Spring of Life Pramen zivota Milan Cieslar Nazi SS and Lebensborn
2000 United States U-571  Jonathan Mostow American submariners infiltrate U-boat to capture Enigma machine
2001 Germany Russia As Far as My Feet Will Carry Me So weit die Füße tragen ( in German ) Hardy Martins Based on Clemens Forell book . German soldier walks 11,000 km to escape Siberian gulag
2001 United Kingdom United States Band of Brothers ( TV miniseries )  Steven Spielberg E Company , 506th Infantry Regiment , 101st Airborne from D-Day to end of war
2001 United Kingdom The Bunker ( The Bunker : The Evil Is Within )  Rob Green Horror-Mystery . Wehrmacht soldiers in Battle of the Siegfried Line
2001 United Kingdom France United States Captain Corelli 's Mandolin  John Madden Italian occupation of Greece and massacre of the Acqui Division
2001 United Kingdom Australia Charlotte Gray  Gillian Armstrong Romance/Thriller . Special Operations Executive and Scotswoman recruited by Secret Service as courier for French Communist Resistance
2001 United Kingdom United States Conspiracy ( TV )  Frank Pierson German officials at Wannsee Conference in 1942 discuss Final Solution to Jewish question ( remake of The Wannsee Conference )
2001 Czech Republic United Kingdom Dark Blue World Tmavomodrý svet Jan Sverák Czechoslovakian pilots in Battle of Britain
2001 Italy The Days of Rage : Cefalonia I giorni dell'amore e dell'odio Claver Salizzato Massacre of the Acqui Division in Cephalonia