Product Details

• Actors: Serge Avedikian & Piotr Stanislas
• Directors: Philippe Vallois
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
• Language: French
• Subtitles: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: Unrated
• Studio: WATER BEARER FILMS
• DVD Release Date: October 12, 2009
• Run Time: 105 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B002LK3E78
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #147,070 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "We Were One Man" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Two WWII enemies begin to bond in a forbidden way., August 18, 2006

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Jim Starke "moviefan2" (Los Angeles) - See all my reviews

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This review is from: We Were One Man (VHS Tape)

We Were One Man
(France, 1980) Directed by: Philipe Vallois. Color. Running Time: 90 Minutes. Contains Nudity & Mature Sexual Themes. Unrated. In French with English subtitles.
During the final days of World War II, a simple French peasant rescues a wounded German soldier and nurses him back to health. And as their playful camaraderie grows, two young men who should be enemies begin to bond in ways neither thought possible. Winner of the Special Jury prize at the Cannes Film Festival!

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A missing masterpiece., July 18, 2009

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Alfredo R. Villanueva (New York, NY United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Were One Man (VHS Tape)

Philippe Valois is one of France's earliest and best gay directors. I first saw this film at a NY Gay Film Festival, bought the VHS and when I switched to DVD format, gave away the tape, thinking I could replace it in the new format. No such luck. It never made it into DVD, as so many other great European and Latin American gay movies (A un dios desconocido, Ernesto, The Flavor of Corn, Otra historia de amor).

The story is simple and utterly beautiful. A mentally challenged young Frenchman of extraordinary physical strength, played by Serge AVedikian, is afraid of the Germans because he has heard they exterminate the handicapped. Therefore, he lives by himself in the woods. One day, he captures a beautiful German flyer--Piotr Stanislas-- tends his wounds and turns him into his pet. However, little by little they fall in love. With the approach of the end of the war, the German must flee. When he tries to, the Frenchman shoots him and then, in an unexplicable move, opens a grave, deposits the body and jumps in as well, closing the hole with a straw mat. It took me several viewings to understand this last scene, which has to do with what the Frenchmen did to little animals his dog caught and killed. He "planted" them as if they were seeds, so they would "sprout" again.

I usually shy away from gay movies with unhappy endings, but this film has stayed with me for over 20 years, and I still consider it a masterpiece of the genre. Time to replace my missing tape!

13 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars why tell the ending, October 2, 2009

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Peter Fraser "cinerama" (Sydney, NSW Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: We Were One Man (DVD)

Why did the last reviewer tell the films's ending.What an complete brain dead idiot.Now there is no need for me to buy this dvd.