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Hiroshima (DVD) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Emmy Awards
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
Danish ( Subtitles )
English ( Dolby Digital Stereo )
Finnish ( Subtitles )
Norwegian ( Subtitles )
Swedish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Denmark ( PAL/Region 2 )

Running Time:
178 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1995 and produced in:
Canada ( USA, Canada )
Japan ( India, Eastern Asia )

Directed By:
Koreyoshi Kurahara
Roger Spottiswoode

Written By:
John Hopkins
Toshirô Ishido

Actors:
Lynne Adams ..... Reporter
Wesley Addy ..... Secretary of War Henry Stimson
Daisaku Akino ..... Lt. Col. Sejima
Allen Altman ..... Joseph Stiborik
Kazuo Arai ..... Tadehiko Okada
Taizo Ariga ..... Equery
Bernard Behrens ..... John McCloy
James Bradford ..... Adm. Ernest King
Mark Camacho ..... Chas Sweeney, Pilot
J. Winston Carroll ..... Chief Justice Stone (as C.W. Carroll)
Serge Christianssens ..... Joseph Stalin (as Serge Christiaenssens)
Clark Clifford ..... Himself
Dan Corby ..... Sailor
Jeffrey DeMunn ..... J. Robert Oppenheimer
Teddy Lee Dillon ..... John Kuharek
Strahil Dobrev ..... Stalin's Interpreter
Kenneth Welsh ..... President Harry S Truman
Timothy West ..... Prime Minister Winston Churchill (as Tim West)
Naohiko Umewaka ..... Emperor Hirohito

Synopsis:

With the sudden death of FDR, Harry Truman finds himself thrust into the Presidency. He would be the first to admit that he was most unprepared for the job as FDR shared little or no information with him. He soon learns however of the $2 billion Manhattan project and that he will have to decide whether or not to use the weapon. With the war in Europe coming to an end, it is obvious that the new weapon would only be of use against Japan. Because it had never been tested, there was no assurance the A-bomb would work so the US also planned for an invasion of Japan. With the successful testing of the weapon in July 1945, Truman decides to proceed with plans to drop it on Japan with the view to bringing about their unconditional surrender.

Harry Truman, the successor to the Oval Office after the late President Rosevelt, is plagued with the decisions of war that could save or cost a thousand lives. He is then confronted with the nuclear weapons project, which he approves. As tension ensues (although it is difficult to get into this because most know the end) Truman must make the devastating desicion to use the bomb of all bombs. After some delivering japanese performances, Truman must force suffering on the japanese people again in order to end the war.

Beginning in the frenzied final months of World War II, Hiroshima rockets back and forth between Truman, Churchill and Hirohito to reach behind the headlines and tell the story of men and women, both public and private, whose lives and careers would be forever changed by this event, creating a balanced portrait of the political, moral and above all, human cost of this historical decision. 'Hiroshima' weaves an unforgettable tapestry of those events which led to the decision which would indelibly change the course of human destiny.

This product was added to our catalog on Wednesday 18 March, 2015.