Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. Its ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. Filming began in May 2016 in Dunkirk and ended that September in Los Angeles, when post-production began. The film premiered on 13 July 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, and was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July. It is the highest-grossing World War II film, making USD 526 million worldwide.
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Dunkirk is a 2017 war film written, directed, and produced by Christopher Nolan. Its ensemble cast includes Fionn Whitehead, Tom Glynn-Carney, Jack Lowden, Harry Styles, Aneurin Barnard, James D’Arcy, Barry Keoghan, Kenneth Branagh, Cillian Murphy, Mark Rylance, and Tom Hardy. Filming began in May 2016 in Dunkirk and ended that September in Los Angeles, when post-production began. The film premiered on 13 July 2017 at Odeon Leicester Square in London, and was released in the United Kingdom and United States on 21 July in IMAX, 70 mm, and 35 mm film formats. It is the highest-grossing World War II film, making USD 526 million worldwide. Dunkirk received praise for its screenplay, direction, musical score, sound effects, and cinematography; some critics called it Nolan’s best work, and one of the greatest war films. It received eight nominations, including Best Picture and Best Director at the 90th Academy Awards, and went on to win for Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing, and Best Film Editing. In all, over 300,000 men are evacuated from Dunkirk; the film portrays the evacuation from three perspectives: land, sea, and air. It has little dialogue, as Nolan sought instead to create suspense from cinematography and music. In 1940, during the Battle of France, Allied soldiers have retreated to Dunkirk. Tommy, a young British private, is the sole survivor of a German ambush.
At the beach, he finds thousands of troops awaiting evacuation and meets Gibson, who is burying a body. After a Luftwaffe dive bomber attack, they attempt to get aboard a hospital ship, but are ordered off. The ship is sunk by dive bombers; Tommy saves another soldier, Alex. Tommy and Alex join some soldiers of a Highlanders regiment and hide inside a beached trawler in the intertidal zone outside the Allied perimeter, waiting for the rising tide to refloat it. During the wait, German troops start shooting at the boat for target practice, and water enters through the bullet holes. The group abandons the boat when it begins to sink. When a nearby minesweeper is entangled in the water, Tommy discovers that the shell-shocked soldier is George, who says he is fine. When the boat is sunk a bomber is entangled to take on those sunk, including those sunk by a bomber, including George. The boat is rescued by Moonstone, and all three are rescued by the Royal Navy. In the end, Tommy, Alex and George join the Highlanders Regiment and take part in the evacuation of Dunkirk, which ends in victory for the Allied forces. The movie was released by Warner Bros. in July 2017, and has since won numerous awards, including the Golden Globe and BAFTAs for Best Picture, Best Director and Best Sound.
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