COUNTERPOINT - BLU

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• Release Year: 1968
• Genre: Action, War
• Plot: For Every Move... A Counter Mov!; For Every Attack...A Counter Attack!; ; Charleton Heston stars with Maximilian Schell and Leslie Nielsen in the gripping drama Counterpoint, combining the splender of classical music along with the brutality of the Second World War. Set in 1944, a renowned symphony orchestra is touring the concert halls or Europe. In the middle of a performance, Hitler's soldiers attack the city, capturing the musicians and their director, Lionel Evans (Heston). The group is imprisoned in a castle and escape immediate execution because the commanding officer, general Schiller (Schell), has a passion for music. He orders them to perpare a concert for his Nazi comrades, but Evans dreads what will happen when the recital is over. The incomparable Los Angeles Philharmonic performs works by Tchaikovsky, Beethoven, Brahms, Wagner and Schubert in this compelling story.
• Cast: Charlton Heston, Maximilian Schell, Kathryn Hays, Leslie Nielsen, Anton Diffring, Linden Chiles, Peter Masterson, Curt Lowens, Neva Patterson, Cyril Delevanti, Gregory Morton, Parley Baer, Dan Frazer, Ed Peck, Paul Birch, Horst Ebersberg, Bill Erwin, Barry Ford, Mischa Hausserman, Norbert Meisel, Ralph Nelson, Wilbur Schwandt, Otis Young, James Lee, Joel Oliansky, Alan Sillitoe
• Director: Ralph Nelson
• Runtime: 1:46
• Company: Universal
• Media Format: Movie