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The Winds of War

Year:

1983

Duration:

USA:883 min | West Germany:720 min (cut)

Genres:

Drama | Romance | War

IMDB rate:

8.3

Awards:

Nominated for 4 Golden Globes. Another 5 wins & 10 nominations

Details

Country: USA

Release Date: 1983-02-06

Filming Locations: Podolje Mansion, Samobor, Croatia

Cast

Actor

Character

Anton Diffring

The Winds of War

Peter Graves

The Winds of War

Robert Mitchum

Victor 'Pug' Henry

Ali MacGraw

Natalie Jastrow

Jan-Michael Vincent

Byron Henry

John Houseman

Aaron Jastrow

Polly Bergen

Rhoda Henry

Lisa Eilbacher

Madeline Henry

David Dukes

Leslie Slote

Topol

Berel Jastrow

Ben Murphy

Warren Henry

Jeremy Kemp

Brigadier General Armin Von Roon

Ralph Bellamy

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

Victoria Tennant

Pamela Tudsbury

Wolfgang Preiss

Field Marshal Walter von Brauchitsch

William Woodson

Narrator (7 episodes, 1983)

Dragomir Stanojevic

(7 episodes, 1983)

Günter Meisner

Adolf Hitler

Reinhard Kolldehoff

Hermann Goering

Werner Kreindl

Colonel General Franz Halder

Rainer Penkert

Grand Admiral Erich Raeder

Alexander Kerst

Field Marshal Wilhelm Keitel

Joachim Hansen

Field Marshal Alfred Jodl

Howard Lang

Winston Churchill

Timothy Stack

Yeoman Ryan

Barry Morse

Wolf Stoller

Michael Logan

Alistair Tudsbury

John Carter

Colonel William Forrest

Tom McFadden

Hugh Cleveland

Roy Poole

Harry Hopkins

Deborah Winters

Janice Lacouture Henry

Joseph Hacker

Lt. Carter 'Lady' Aster

Allan Cuthbertson

Maj. Gen. Tillet / ... (2 episodes, 1983)

Scott Brady

Capt. Red Tully (2 episodes, 1983)

Edmund Purdom

Luigi Gianelli

Lawrence Pressman

Bunky Thurston

Lin McCarthy

Blinker Vance

Enzo G. Castellari

Benito Mussolini

Edmund Pegge

Air Commodore Burne-Wilke

Leo Gordon

General 'Train' Anderson

Elizabeth Hoffman

Eleanor Roosevelt

Michael McGuire

Fred Fearing

Ferdy Mayne

Ludwig Rosenthal

Sky du Mont

Count Galeazzo Ciano

Judith Atwell

Sally Forrest

James Ray

Chargé Reese Claremont

Stelio Candelli

Scarfaced Gestapo Agent

Karl-Otto Alberty

White-haired Gestapo Agent

Eloise Hardt

Mrs. Lacouture (2 episodes, 1983)

Henryk Rajfer

Groom at Wedding / ... (2 episodes, 1983)

Did you know?

Trivia

Aaron Jastrow (John Houseman) mentions that the correct Polish pronunciation of his family name would be "Yastrov." This means Natalie's name would be Natalia Yastrov, which sounds quite similar to Natalia Rostova, the heroine of Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace. The second half of her story also has the quite similar title, War and Remembrance (1988).

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Robert Mitchum and Ali MacGraw were considered too old for their respective parts by many fans of the books and production executives, but director and producer Dan Curtis insisted on their being cast.

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Barry Morse, Michael McGuire,Sky du Mont, and actress/producer Barbara Steele Heinz Weiss and Leo Gordon would all return for the sequel, War and Remembrance (1988), but in different roles.

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Goofs

As Pug and Palmer talk before dinner, Pug is holding his drink with one hand, then with both between shots; a moment later, Palmer is holding his with his left hand, then suddenly is sipping it, then repeats. [Part 6, Scene 9, time index 1:30:24 and 1:31:15]

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When Pug boards the president's train in Silver Spring and is being shown to his room, the reflection of the camera crew is visible in the glass cabinet to Pug's left.

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As the U-boats are submerging after the convoy confrontation it is clear that the footage of the subs surfacing was simply used in reverse. You can even see the Wolf Pack Commanders sub submerging while going backwards.

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Quotes

Wolf Stoller: There are certain conversations that have to be forgotten. And in Germany we have a phrase for such delicate matters. We say, "under four eyes."

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