Schlacht in den Wolken

Originaltitel: Aces High

1976
12
1 Std. 54 Min.

IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

3200

IHRE BEWERTUNG

trailer wiedergeben1:14

1 Video

43 Fotos

Action Drama War

Im Ersten Weltkrieg stellt die hohe Unfallrate unter den Nachwuchspiloten des Royal Flying Corps eine enorme Belastung für die Überlebenden dar.Im Ersten Weltkrieg stellt die hohe Unfallrate unter den Nachwuchspiloten des Royal Flying Corps eine enorme Belastung für die Überlebenden dar.Im Ersten Weltkrieg stellt die hohe Unfallrate unter den Nachwuchspiloten des Royal Flying Corps eine enorme Belastung für die Überlebenden dar.

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IMDb-BEWERTUNG

6,5/10

3200

IHRE BEWERTUNG

Siehe Produktionsinformationen bei IMDbPro

Nominiert für 1 BAFTA Award
- 1 Gewinn & 2 Nominierungen insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Many of the actors playing pilots in this film were in their early thirties, however in reality most of the Royal Flying Corps pilots were aged 18-25. Only the 21-year-old Peter Firth was the right age.

Patzer
Because of the use of disguised, more modern, inauthentic aircraft, most (with the exception of the mocked-up SE5s with their forward-facing radiators hiding the V8) are shown with radial, instead of, rotary engines, where the engine block rotates around a fixed crankshaft.

Zitate
Mess Corporal Bennett: [as the pilots set off early in the morning on a dangerous mission] How many for breakfast? Any of them?

Crazy Credits
Opening credits prologue: England October 1916

Alternative Versionen
Some DVD releases feature a shorter print which reduces the French restaurant scene and misses out shots of the officers looking at a slideshow of nude photographs. These appear to have been made by the distributor, as the film has never been cut by the BBFC.

Verbindungen
Edited into Blackadder - Vierter Teil: Private Plane (1989)

Soundtracks
Under the Bridges of Paris
(Sous les Ponts de Paris)
(uncredited)
Music by Vincent Scotto
French lyrics by Jean Rodor
English lyrics by Dorcas Cochran

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Ausgewählte Rezension

8/10

Excellent

This is an excellent film about WWI Royal Flying Corps and their fights against the Germans over the trenches.

Fantastic cast - McDowell, Trevor Howard, Peter Firth, Simon Ward and Christopher Plummer - they are all some of the best in the business at portraying English upper classes. Especially the mean McDowell (with his ironic speech at Eton 'we are caning them' when they're not really) and the callow Peter Firth, all Boys Own enthusiasm.

Shows the pious nature of the English elite, with John Gielgud as the headmaster spouting out empty platitudes about decency and 'playing the game' while, meanwhile, McDowell is playing dirty tricks on German pilots (the scene where he gets his opponent to land in the field and then destroys him as he walks towards his plane to offer help).

Fantastic aerial shots.