God's Country (1985 film)
God's Country is a 1985 documentary film about Glencoe, Minnesota, by French filmmaker Louis Malle.
Original footage of a farming community, 60 miles west of Minneapolis, Minnesota was filmed in 1979 for a PBS documentary.
But for the next six years Malle was too busy with other projects to finish this work.
He returned in 1985 for a follow- up and found the community reacting to the mid eighties crisis of overproduction in farm country.
Malle documented a sense of frustration and apprehension from the same participants he had befriended in better times half a decade earlier.
The film is occasionally shown on Turner Classic Movies, and is available on DVD from the Criterion Collection.
The name of the film comes from the widespread belief in American folklore that the United States of America has an exceptional status in the world as" God's country" or" the promised land" because, metaphorically, early European settlers such as the Puritans of Massachusetts Bay believed they were founding at God's behest a shining city upon a hill.
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Brian Johnson (special effects artist)
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Peter Levin
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Louis Malle
Louis Marie Malle( 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter and producer.
His film" Le Monde du silence" won the Palme d' Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony; the award was instead presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau.
Later in his career he was nominated multiple times for Academy Awards.
Malle is also one of only four directors to have won the Golden Lion twice.
Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films.
His most famous films include the crime film" Ascenseur pour l'échafaud"( 1958), the World War II drama" Lacombe, Lucien"( 1974), the romantic crime film" Atlantic City"( 1980), the comedy- drama" My Dinner with Andre"( 1981), and the autobiographical film" Au revoir les enfants"( 1987).
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Blake Edwards
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Often thought of as primarily a director of comedies, he also directed several drama, musical, and detective films.
Late in his career, he transitioned to writing, producing, and directing for theater.
In 2004, he received an Honorary Academy Award in recognition of his writing, directing, and producing an extraordinary body of work for the screen.
Operation Petticoat
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The film tells in flashback the misadventures of the fictional U.S. Navy submarine, USS "Sea Tiger", during the Battle of the Philippines in the opening days of the United States involvement in World War II.
Some elements of the screenplay were taken from actual incidents that happened with some of the Pacific Fleet's submarines during the war.
Other members of the cast include several actors who went on to become television stars in the 1960s and 1970s:
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Question: Do director of film God's Country (1985 film) and director of film Operation Petticoat have the same nationality?
Answer: no