John Huston och kriget
Amerikansk dokumentär från 1998.
Regi: Midge Mackenzie
A personal film memoir. The focus is on the outstanding documentary films directed by John Huston during World War ll which were "lost"and "banned". For 'Report from the Aleutians', nominated for an Oscar in 1943, Huston flew many dangerous bombing missions with his combat camera crews from the island of Adak against the Japanese emplacements. John Hustons's second documentary 'Battle of San Pietro' shot in Italy, is startling in it's honesty. A vivid and complete record of brutal combat conditions that faced the 36th Texas Infantry regiment. With "one hundred per cent replacements" they were devastated. Banned for this authentic realism 'Battle of San Pietro" was declared "unfit for Army Personnel to see because it would be demoralising....." In the aftermath of war, Huston directed 'Let There Be Light'. A group portrait of soldiers being treated for what we now call traumatic stress syndrome. The tragic and shocking faces of men emotionally devastated by combat were filmed by John Huston with such veracity that this film remained banned for thirty five years.