The Longest Day
English • 1962 • 2h 58m
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Directors
Synopsis
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Credits
Crew
DirectorKen Annakin, Bernhard Wicki, Andrew Marton
CinematographerJean Bourgoin, Walter Wottitz
ComposerMaurice Jarre
EditorSamuel E. Beetley
ProducerDarryl F. Zanuck