Platoon DVD 1986 Szakasz / Directed by Oliver Stone / Starring: Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen

UPC 5996255717266

MADE IN EU

REGION 2 PAL DVD

AUDIO: English 5.1, Hungarian 2.0, Czech 5.1, Polish 2.0, Turkish 2.0

Subtitles: English, Hungarian, Romanian, Icelandic, Czech, Slovenian, Turkish, Bulgarian, Croatian

TOTAL RUNTIME: 115 MINUTES

English Summary:

Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). The film, based on Stone's experience from the war, follows a U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant and his Squad Leader (Berenger and Dafoe) argue over the morality in the platoon and the conduct of the war.

In 1967, U.S. Army volunteer Chris Taylor arrives in South Vietnam and is assigned to an infantry platoon of the 25th Infantry Division near the Cambodian border. The platoon is officially led by the young and inexperienced Lieutenant Wolfe, but in reality, the soldiers defer to two of his older, more experienced subordinates: the hardened and cynical Sergeant Barnes, and the more idealistic and reasonable Sergeant Elias.

Chris is immediately sent out with Barnes, Elias, and veteran soldiers on a planned night ambush for a North Vietnamese army force. The NVA soldiers manage to get close to the sleeping Americans before a brief firefight ensues; Chris's fellow new recruit Gardner is killed and Chris himself lightly wounded. After his return from the hospital, Chris bonds with Elias and his circle of marijuana-smokers while remaining aloof from Barnes and his more hard-edged followers.

During a subsequent patrol on New Year's Day 1968, three men are killed by explosive booby traps, and unseen assailants. Already on edge, the platoon is further angered when they discover an enemy supply and weapons cache in a nearby village. Barnes, through a Vietnamese-speaking soldier, Lerner, aggressively interrogates the village chief about whether the villagers have been aiding the NVA. In a fit of anger, Barnes shoots the chief's wife dead after she shouts at him and threatens to kill the chief's daughter. Elias then arrives, getting into a physical altercation with Barnes over the killing before Wolfe breaks it up and orders the supplies destroyed and the village razed. The blaze causes a few of the burning homes to explode, suggesting they contained hidden munitions kept by the villagers. 

Hungarian Summary:

A tizennyolc éves Chris egyenesen az iskolapadból kerül a távol-keleti mészárszékre. Szakaszában két tapasztalt katona körül csoportosulnak az emberek: a morálisan lezüllött Barnes őrmester és az emberi tartását megőrző Elias őrmester körül. Mindannyiuk közös célja, hogy túléljék a borzalmakat és hazatérhessenek.

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