This is not the first film that has been made about Daniel Lang's 1969 article. In 1970 Brian De Palma was in Berlin when its film festival was closed because German director Michael Verhoeven had sparked controversy with his film O.K. (1970), which depicted the crime that the group of soldiers had committed. De Palma said he has tried to track the film down over the years but has never seen it to this day.
When Ericsson goes to the toilet he is followed by Clark who tries to blow him up with a grenade. The guy who plays Clark is white but you can see that the person who lifts the slide to plant the grenade has a black arm.
When a soldier steps on a landmine, other soldiers takes a picture of his corpse. Eriksson and one soldier goes to look that corpse which now lies on an opposite side of the road.
Clark sings a line from the Doors' song, "Hello I Love You", to Oanh while marching. "Hello, I Love You" was originally released as a single in June 1968. However, the events portrayed in the film happened in 1966.
Meserve: Even though I walk through the valley of shadow and death, I shall fear no evil. For I'm the meanest motherfucker in the whole fucking valley.
What are the differences between the Theatrical Version and the Extended Version?
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The Extended Version features two new scenes that were reintegrated into the movie, making the movie about 6 minutes longer. Whereas the first scene could be found among the Deleted Scenes of the old DVDs the second one is really new: In that court scene a negative side of Eriksson is presented because he could have prevented the rape and the murder, instead he was just a bystander. A detailed comparison between both versions with pictures can be found here.