Product Details

• Actors: Martin Benson, Alexander Davion, Lesley-Anne Down, Richard Pasco, Donald Pleasence
• Directors: Waris Hussein
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rating: R (Restricted)
• Studio: Direct Source Label
• DVD Release Date: April 1, 1985
• Run Time: 95 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.5 out of 5 stars See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007R4T9O
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #66,088 in Movies & TV (See Bestsellers in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

Product Description
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Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: NR
Release Date: 1-FEB-2005
Media Type: DVD

Customer Reviews

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Historical anti-war movie, May 16, 2008

By	Andrea D (NY, NY, USA) - See all my reviews

Arch of Triumph is based of the novel of the same title written by Eric Maria Remarque (who also wrote "All Quiet of the Western Front") There are no happy endings en Remarque's novels. The history is about a German doctor (played superbly by Anthony Hopkins), who is Christian but anti-nazi, and has sought refuge in France prior to September 1, 1939.
He is what the French call un sans-papier - an undocumented. France was already flooded by refugees from the defeated Spanish Republic. He is not allowed to work and if he is arrested, he will be dropped at the German border and pushed forward. Of course, if he goes back to Germany, he will end in a concentration camp. He knows it and does what he has to do in order to survive in France. He is viewed as an enemy by both the French and the Germans. In that quandary, he meets a suicidal French woman, a helpful French doctor, and a compasionate Zarist Russian exile. The movie ends as WWII begins.
If you want to watch a movie just to relax, this is not it; it shows a cruel world. This is a movie with a message: that the price that war and prejudice exert on the individual is a high one.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Arch of Triumph, January 22, 2008

By	Starling Flowers "Starling" (Gallipolis, OH USA) - See all my reviews

The story line is OK and Anthony Hopkins is brilliant as always. I was very disappointed in the quality of the video itself. It is hard to see, the color is awful and the sound is bad. It looks like a homemade video.