The first time I watched this movie was in 1963 at a drive in theater in Vermont.
@olivenbaumchenfindeichgut420010 күн бұрын
Uhhh, das war gut zehn Jahre vor meiner Geburt 😮😊
@DieAlteistwiederda Жыл бұрын
Hearing actual native German speakers in a movie like this is just amazing and really adds to the story. I wish studios these days would still put this much effort into realism. It just wouldn't feel right if this dialog was spoken in bad German by native English speakers.
@cornelius592611 ай бұрын
I think Quentin Tarantino did a lot with Inglorious Basterds and I have the feeling that more and more historical persons are played by their natives.
@benlhyenethehyena99477 ай бұрын
It's now that I find out they speak German, in the French dub I've always known everybody is dubbed in French lol
@wayneantoniazzi270624 күн бұрын
Obviously a German movie but the fact that "Downfall" (Der Untergang) was cast with German-speaking actors added to the incredible realism. I felt like I was really THERE and not watching a movie.
@teller129019 күн бұрын
@@cornelius5926worst war movie ever. Ghastly and baseless.
@carlnapp44127 күн бұрын
Richtig!
@welshpete1216 күн бұрын
A movie that was more like a documentary then just a film .
@Warmaker0112 күн бұрын
One of the special things about Longest Day is that it gave the points of view of different groups, different sides. It had an enormous cast with many characters. This is rarely done in a war movie because they tend to emphasize one side. It's a rarity in films in general because the concern is that with so many points of view and characters, the story can easily become an unfocused mess. Longest Day also went through the extra effort of native languages being used. French spoken by the French, German being spoken by the Germans.
@RenegadeSamurai4 жыл бұрын
3:45 and on the right you see the future Mayor of Stuttgart, and eponymist of the Stuttgart Airport: Manfred Rommel ;)
@Beppo854 жыл бұрын
Played in this scene by Michael Hinz, the real son of the actor playing Rommel, Werner Hinz.
@kevinhealey65403 күн бұрын
I saw this film in 64 on a tv Program called "Saturday Night at the Movies." "Saturday Night at the Movies" was a household name. Everybody would tune in to see what would be shown. There were a lot of great films that they showed.
@afrofinka6 жыл бұрын
German generals were fine strategists, but divided in their point of views. There were those who believed in the old logic (Von Rundstedt) and those who were wise enough to decipher the enemy's logic (Rommel, Marcks). But destiny came in...
@paladinsix92855 жыл бұрын
The Germans were good (occasionally Excellent) Tacticians. Their 'strategy' was usually mere expanded tactics. Lacking solid strategy, they displayed minimal operational art. Superior Tactics resulted in the Germans prolonging both world wars!
@Broodkast84 жыл бұрын
@George Kurzatkowski It was actually more the strategic depth of the Soviet Union that screwed them. An invasion till Moscow was more than 1000 km, which is a logistical nightmare.
@shinchannohara29244 жыл бұрын
hitler committed many strategic blunders during operation barbarossa. he deviated army group south from its original objective by ordering them to secure oil resourcen in carcasses first. it delayed army group center and south & ultimately gave soviets enough time to prepare and put up strong fortifications in moscow. operation barbarossa would have been a grand victory and moscow would have definitely fallen if nazi forces strictly followed their "blitzkrieg" offences.
@gruntforever743727 күн бұрын
@@shinchannohara2924 I would argue they should have fainted towards Moscow and went after the oil. Stalin would have put all the reserves there to protect his own hide, and they could have taken the oil or at least got the luftwaffe close enough to set the complexes on fire. Over 85% of Russian oil production came from there; take that away for six months to a year and its all over. I really do not think the delay mattered as regards Moscow; the fortification there would have prevented its fall before winter hit
@Waterflux20 күн бұрын
@@shinchannohara2924 The Kiev diversion was not a mistake. Think of it in this way: there were roughly 1 million Red Army troops in Ukraine. Had Army Group Center kept on pushing towards Moscow, there would have been a very long and weakly defended southern flank which would most likely to have been targeted by the Red Army counterattacks. Furthermore, the Soviets not only mustered new armies east of Smolensk, but also launched bloody counterattacks which hammered Army Group Center. Meanwhile, AG Center was overextended, low on supplies, and still had to deal with the Smolensk pocket. Last, but not the least, the German rail capacity was already overextended and ended up having trucks to travel as far as 500 kilometers from the railheads to deliver supplies. Logistical constraints ultimately dictate what an army can and cannot accomplish. A lot of misconception such as the myth of Hitler's "blunder" came about because most German accounts and memoirs were LOUSY when it comes to properly sizing up the locations and the sizes of Red Army's operational reserves. (The Soviets had a mobilizable population of around 14 million at the beginning of th. war. During the second half of 1941 alone, the Red Army formed as many as 40+ armies!) It was not until the opening of Soviet military archives when we were finally able to have a better picture of what the Soviets had. Germans might have excelled tactically, but their intel was pitifully bad. (Institutional bias can be blamed for this: German officers were a bit too fixated on operational maneuvers, but did not pay enough attention to boring stuffs like intel and logistics.)
@95bochamp6 жыл бұрын
Rommel suspected that the invasion would occur in Normandy rather than Calais. When the invasion came, Rommel was the only one of Hitler's generals who had the prestige to demand that reinforcements be brought in despite Hitler's orders against doing so.There is a story that Rommel left the coast in order to attend a birthday party for his wife. Had he been in Normandy and had he ordered reinforcements, the invasion may have failed. BTW, his wife's birthday was June 6th. Did history change because one man married a woman whose birthday fell on the same day as an invasion delayed by weather? Who knows....
@crackshack26 жыл бұрын
"The minutes of meetings ,records ,diaries will show Adolf Hitler frequently insisted that Normandy was the place . This is why he placed his best tactical commander there ! Field Marshall Rommel. Rommel likened the area to the Bay Of Salerno ,were the Mark Clark's Army had with great difficulty landed in Italy , September of 1943 . Hitler had chosen Rommel to Command Army Group B ,Right in front of the beach' s . The famous Rommel was also made “ Inspector Of Coastal Defenses”. Hitler and his staff ,OKW felt the Allies would come from the Southern English Ports , and there airfields were within the best range of the Normandy . The German Army Command in France ,and traditional General Staff thought Pas De Calais ." www.quora.com/Did-Hitler-think-the-allied-invasion-was-coming-in-a-different-place-Were-Allies-efforts-to-mislead-Germany-before-the-D-Day-paid-off The one thing that destroyed the German War Machine was internal subversion.
@mlasko745 жыл бұрын
They had awoke a sleeping giant, their demise was certain
@Exiles8005 жыл бұрын
Pure luck or clever planning by British Intelligence?
@mlasko745 жыл бұрын
@Rick Stuifzand If you mean the Soviets then id say awoke a raging, psychotic and awfully hungry bear
@justinkassel40005 жыл бұрын
+crackshack2 the German war machine never survived a chance against multiple invasions. I'd argue that even a failed invasion would still have left Germany lost.
@troy94776 жыл бұрын
One of my favorite movies, a d one of the best war movies. The German scenes were excellent, as were the French Resistance scenes. Also the very poignant moment before the naval bombardment where the Free French admiral tells his men: "To drive out the invader, we must fire on our honeland. This is the price of liberty". Inspired. Probably the best depiction of D-day until Saving Private Ryan, and probably the best detail of the airborne parachute and glider operations of any film.
@PyjamaShark94 жыл бұрын
The French admiral's address to his men is also my favorite part!
@wedgeantillies6615 күн бұрын
Rommel strategy was spot on for dealing with the invasion, to stop it in the beeches as the overall local commander in chief in the spot. However he was hamstrung in putting his plan into action by being absence in Germany for his wife birthday on June 6 and hitters refusal to release panzer reserves or the 15th army that would be necessary to prevent the allies from Gaining linked up beachhead in sufficient strength to carry on the invasion.
@StanleyKewbeb110 жыл бұрын
00:37 Hey, where'd he go?!...0:45 whew, he's back!
@9johnpaul5 жыл бұрын
Yea I always wondered why. I think that with him out of the picture the viewer might get a better perspective of the message he was giving to the others.
@elkanlevy67515 жыл бұрын
Oomark clark
@scharnhorst30055 жыл бұрын
The Germans knew the secrets of time travelling..
@andreasmartin79425 жыл бұрын
Luckily for the allies he had the one and only camouflage 'Wunderwaffe' prototype.
@jeanmarchattais5285 жыл бұрын
back us but dont fon t 101 anf 82
@kevinhealey65403 күн бұрын
If you look at the films of Rommel at Normandy in 44, you can see he's not the same man he was in North Africa.
@dondee54397 күн бұрын
30 Sherman tanks were suppose to float to the Normandy beaches. Only one tank made it through the rough sea. 29 Sherman tanks with 5 man crews sank drowning the men (145 men). If those tanks had made it to the beaches then USA casualties could have been reduced from 5,000 to half or even less.
@HectorCoronel-lf5oy5 күн бұрын
ROMMEL EL MEJOR ESTRATEGA DE LA 2DA GUERRA MUNDIAL .
@lionhead1232 жыл бұрын
best war movie ever
@ariochiv24 күн бұрын
I think _Tora! Tora! Tora!_ is right up there as well.
@RNye7712 жыл бұрын
My favorite movie!
@Mike125225 жыл бұрын
Such are the fortunes of war. Good luck, bad luck, etc. Most German Generals were away from Normandy for wargames in Germany. Bad weather stopped all German air and sea patrols from going out in the English Channel on June 5-6, and detecting the invasion force. The Atlantic wall defences were not complete. The Allies landed, by mistake, at some lightly defended places. Hitler slept in 12 hours. Later, because of confusion, the Germans were still not entirely convinced the real invasion had begun. Even if all German reinforcements had been brought in immediately, they would not have stopped the invasion. Etc. This makes me realize how fragile life really is.
@None-zc5vg23 күн бұрын
("...on June 5th/6th...")
@mlasko745 жыл бұрын
The men at first landing at Normandy all paid the ultimate sacrifice.
@ZacharyBauerNew2Torah12 жыл бұрын
Favorite movie of all time.
@printolive55124 жыл бұрын
The victory was sealed by air power. All those panzers north of Caen would have been destroyed if they had moved south so in the end, no matter what the German generals thought was the point for the landin, air power would be the final arbiter . Allies controlled the air and the Germans would lose. Rommel knew this from North Africa so he wanted the panzers to be stationed closer to the front lines along with major Luftwaffe squadrons. He lost that argument so the Germans lost the war.
@WilkensTokarev23 ай бұрын
Rommel was such a loving and a loyal husband that he returned to Berlin to celebrate with his wife's birthday but the western allies landed on the time he didn't expected
@logerbad1911 жыл бұрын
its like finding a french soldier fighting for the japanese in iwo jima
@Go_for_it6525 ай бұрын
The formations were 3000 miles. The allies just flew over them .
@pittsburghpirate585 жыл бұрын
“What did he say....what did he say?” “Look I all dressed up for supper”!
@JohnJohn-pe5kr4 жыл бұрын
pittsburghpirate58 um 😐 this isn’t saving private Ryan.
@daveyboy_3 жыл бұрын
washed
@Frankie-O Жыл бұрын
Czech, not German (the soldier was speaking).
@Pooch51113 күн бұрын
Spandex is a interesting character. After the July 20th plot, Spandel was suspected of being in on it. He was arrested and questioned by the Gestapo. Using superior logic, he was able to persuade them that he was not part of the plot. Moreover, there is some thought that Rommel took cover for Spandel. After the war, he became one of the leaders of the new West German army.
@kal.50bmg3213 күн бұрын
Who ? LOL !!! 😁
@carlnapp44127 күн бұрын
Rommel hatte einen Maybach DSH als Dienstwagen.
@daveyboy_6 жыл бұрын
4:21 lmao. somebody wake the bastard up
@Frankie-O3 жыл бұрын
Blumentritt talked to Jodl, but von Rundstedt didn't care if he was awake or not.
@logerbad1911 жыл бұрын
really wow!!! haha
@Frankie-O3 жыл бұрын
😯
@jonathananthonyroqueteano60777 жыл бұрын
WWII Best German General Best Respected too by the Enemy Allies Monster.
@tomservo53475 жыл бұрын
Rommel was a great tactician-but strategically thinking a little short sighted. (Von Rundstedt thought Field Marshal was too big a promotion to Rommel due to this shortcoming. Rundstedt also thought Field Marshal Model would have made a 'fine regimental sergeant major' but nothing more. Von Rundstedt did well during Barbarossa-and even bucked Hitler's orders to keep advancing by having his group make a strategic withdrawal to prepare defenses for the coming winter. Hitler countermanded these orders to which Von Rundstedt resigned-rather than play politics with the 'Austrian corporal'. Von Rundstedt simply didn't comprehend how big a role Allied air superiority would have at Normandy. He couldn't hardly move without air attack.
@paladinsix92855 жыл бұрын
@@tomservo5347 I mostly agree with you about Rommel, von Rundstadt, and Model. Rommel tried to inform the other German leaders about Allied Tactical Airpower, however, they continued to think it was like the Luftwaffe, (over Hyped)!
@jrapcdaikari7 жыл бұрын
1:40 - 3:36 I think I've seen that Chateau before, but where? *plays Battlefield 1 on the map Ballroom Blitz OOOOOOOOOOOoooooooohhhhhhhhh!!!! (I guess French Chateaus all look the same then)
@hmhq79435 жыл бұрын
Real gamer 😎😎😎
@das_edelweiss87365 жыл бұрын
I said that too 😂👌
@HappisakVideos5 жыл бұрын
Château de Chantilly, It was also seen in the Bond film View to a Kill.
@peachringd23786 жыл бұрын
1:50 ballroom blitz from battlefield 1 anyone? :)
@justinzorn61254 жыл бұрын
look at those fucking uniforms SHARP is an understatement. imagine being in one of those german general uniforms the pride i would feel.
@johnkosmidis28711 жыл бұрын
You watched the ''MY WAY'' ? haha. Yes its true. Not only 1-2. more than 20!
@hyethga9 жыл бұрын
What does Rommel say at 3:20, something "los"?
@VictorEmmanuelElias9 жыл бұрын
He said "Fahren Sie los!" the English equivalent would be "drive off!"
@hyethga9 жыл бұрын
Cool, thank you!
@meaghanmcclure506 жыл бұрын
I'm not Lucie Rommel, but if he had those shoes specially made for my birthday I'd be really pissed...so ugly...I think she was nice to him because she still felt bad about Alamein
@Trust-me-I-am-a-dentist23 күн бұрын
🤦
@Raguleader13 жыл бұрын
It's a Rommelian Cloaking Device!
@stevewilson46785 жыл бұрын
The Wars of the Rose,s(🌹).-
@Frankie-O3 жыл бұрын
It came from nowhere and blew the roses to bits.
@whiteknightcat5 жыл бұрын
"But beyond that peaceful horizon ... a monster awaits." So ... Numenor?
@andreasmartin79425 жыл бұрын
Moby Dick couldn't make time, he sent a few Americans instead
@leftcoaster674 жыл бұрын
Sauron was never that cautious.
@andreasmartin79425 жыл бұрын
'Believe me, gentlemen.' 'Uh, no.'
@Frankie-O Жыл бұрын
🙅♂️
@James-zp5po9 күн бұрын
In the film the us army took of d day those iron things weren't on the beach sry
@NaderR6 жыл бұрын
That sounds more Goering than Rommel.
@Frankie-O Жыл бұрын
Battle of Britain wasn't until 1969.
@Pooch51113 күн бұрын
Rommel's aide.
@ihl86085 жыл бұрын
that guy to the right of Rommel was in the battle of bulge starring Henry Fonda.
@Beppo854 жыл бұрын
Basically the same little batch of German actors was in every war movie back then.
@Frankie-O2 жыл бұрын
The Pluskat actor was in it as well.
@michaelneuwirth3414Ай бұрын
The actor's name is Til Kiwe. Remarkably, he served in the Afrika Korps as a captain and was awarded the Knight's Cross in 1943! This makes him probably the most decorated actor in the entire film. The actor you are referring to was called Hans Christian Blech. He also plays in this film, but not in this scene, but as Major Pluskat directly in a bunker on the beach.
@Maria71626 жыл бұрын
That was what he thought,fortunally he was wrong,he germans lost the war,and there at the ebach the allies weren´t detained by the germans.
@logerbad1911 жыл бұрын
True fact: Did you know there was a korean guy in the german side in this beach?
@whilryke6 жыл бұрын
logerbad19 a south korean movie was inspired by this story
@binaway5 жыл бұрын
The was also two Asian soldiers found who's only language couldn't immediately be identified. An Oxford Don identified it as a rare Mongolian Dialect spoken on the Russian side of the border. Neither understood what the USSR was. One day soldiers "Red Army" arrived and took all the young men and with no training sent them to the front where the two where soon captured. Forced to labor for Germany and then press-ganged into the German army. Again no training. Just sent to the Atlantic wall and captured on D-day. Neither understood what had happened.
@Stylus-ms4cv3 сағат бұрын
No Ike and the troops played poker bluffed Rommel and the Germans we lost a lot of great guys but they got a toehold my Dad said it was in doubt for 2 weeks Dad and his recon unit landed in July and rolled to the front
@griffgriffin9711 жыл бұрын
??
@Frankie-O Жыл бұрын
❔️
@Maria71626 жыл бұрын
Este assassino está preocupado com as suas rosas mas não quer saber das pessoas que ele fez com que matassem,só lhe importa o jardim e ir à Alemanha estar com a mulher do seu aniversário,mas nesse dia recebe a noticia do desembarque na Normandia com mau tempo e chama-se estupido a si proprio por ter ido à Alemanha,mas demasiado tarde;e depois disso tem que se entender com Hitler.Esse video quero ver,deve ser uma furia daquelas do Hitler,bronca das grandes.
@Soundwave359111 жыл бұрын
does anyone think that, had Rommel survived the war, he would have been placed in command of the Bundeswehr? just spitballing here, but with his grasp of tactics, one would think that he would have, at the very least, been in command of NATO's Armored units in west Germany.
@pittsburghpirate585 жыл бұрын
Soundwave3591 Russians would have invaded Fulda Gap with 20,000 tanks and 5 million infantry upon his appointment immediately!!
@paladinsix92855 жыл бұрын
@@pittsburghpirate58 the Soviet Union was even more exhausted than the British Empire! Until 1955 they were still fighting holdouts, and resistance movements. They needed to 'digest' the Ukraine, as well as new conquests. Nor could the USA and various Allies have "liberated" eastern Europe, let alone the Soviet Union.
@Beppo854 жыл бұрын
His chief of staff Hans Speidel ended up in command of NATO.
@michaelbruchas6663Ай бұрын
Bad matte background work…but we didn’t know that 35 years ago.l.
@pauldow16486 жыл бұрын
What movie is this ?
@THE-HammerMan6 жыл бұрын
paul dow "Willy Winks and the Chocolate Factory".
@THE-HammerMan6 жыл бұрын
paul dow I typed "Wonka". This durned auto-correct on phones! You can't be serious, so my answer is in that light.
@michaelmorris22436 жыл бұрын
The longest day
@smem79636 жыл бұрын
cant you read the fucking title
@mr.zondide27465 жыл бұрын
Beach Party with Frankie Avalon
@loiclutz41679 жыл бұрын
Do you understand what Rommel says at 2:19 ? Something like : " Hat Berchtesgaden bestätigt, dass ich zum ........ erwartet werde?"
@ManuelaHertel7 жыл бұрын
Rommel says: "Hat Berchtesgaden bestätigt, dass ich zum Vortrag beim Führer erwartet werde?" (("Did Berchtesgaden confirm that I was expected for a talk at the Führer?")
@Lonette6 жыл бұрын
He is saying "Has Berchtesgaden confirmed that I am expected?"
@ChetzNation9 жыл бұрын
Fun fact: Rommel kept troops from partaking during the landings because he estimated they would be needed to fight SS troops still loyal to the regime after operation Valkyria.
@VRichardsn9 жыл бұрын
+Chetz Do you have any proof? As far as I know, he wasn´t what one would call "active" in the complot.
@ChetzNation9 жыл бұрын
Richardsen Out of memory so... Google it.
@VRichardsn9 жыл бұрын
Chetz Will do.
@ChetzNation9 жыл бұрын
Richardsen Let me know if I'm wrong :)
@VRichardsn9 жыл бұрын
Chetz I have not found anything yet regarding that particular, but that doesn´t mean it isn´t true. I will keep looking.
@thekameleon97855 жыл бұрын
What people should know is that meanwhile the russians advance 5000 miles on operation bagration and destroy german army group center
@paulnewton41835 жыл бұрын
@Rommel the Cat also you will find that the British faced as many infantry divisions and panzer divisions just after D-day as the Russians did during the bagration attack
@johnclepant30405 жыл бұрын
German soldiers didn't do that work. It was done by French civilians who were happy to do it because they were relatively well paid. ;-)
@Maria71626 жыл бұрын
Os aliados desembarcaram mesmo com mau tempo e conseguiram sair das praias e vançar pela França e mais tarde chegar a Paris e depois mesmo chegar à Alemanha e derrotar os nazis também com ajuda das tropas soviéticas.
@jdsol19385 жыл бұрын
the longest day was another example of Rommel's incompetence, as he was off on personal business, and of no consequence
@THE-HammerMan5 жыл бұрын
Good grief! You sure are a STUPID TURD!
@MrKen-wy5dk5 жыл бұрын
The lighting for these scenes is so theatrical as to be beyond belief. Compare the lighting of "Saving Private Ryan" to "The Longest Day" and it just looks like a typical "Brady Bunch", or, "MacMillan and Wife", or "Columbo". I know the technology has changed drastically, but, still, couldn't the producers, with an almost unlimited budget, have done something to give the lighting a more realistic rendering? For this, I give th is movie a a 5 Stars thumbs down.
@leftcoaster674 жыл бұрын
Perhaps you could be a lighting technician in Hollywood in 1959-60 and work with the director.....
@jameskirk99385 жыл бұрын
It's not a invasion. Today it's called brexit. 😁😁😁
@leftcoaster674 жыл бұрын
Brexit is more like "Peace for our time" and its logic is just as flawed.
@johnweber661212 күн бұрын
Rommel was overated
@anthonyivanaglugubjr.26456 жыл бұрын
See Monster Damage Police Elephant Donald J. Trump Jr. Does You Straining Yourselves to be Release Against the Best Human Alike German Professionals.