Presentation of the Last Valley

Presentation of the Last Valley

During 30 years, a war tore apart Europe. Started in 1618 and finished in 1648, the Thirty Years war involved most of the countries of Europe and was one of the longest and most destructive conflicts in European history.

This war devastated entire regions, provocated famines and diseases, which decreased population of many countries. Europe has set ablaze by violence, especially because of the soldiers’ cruelty.

In 1971, a British director, James Clavell, released a film, based on a novel of J.B Pick: The Last Valley. The book and the film set in southern Germany during this war and related the story of two individuals – a ruthless mercenary and an intellectual fleeing destruction and starvation – who discover an idyllic valley untouched by the violence of war. The two must work together in order to preserve the last peaceful place.

With this blog, I wanted to study how film studios and moviemakers talk about a great and violent war though an epic movie and which effect this war could have on men. Unfortunately, this topic interest no many producers who prefer to deal with more recent wars such as the World Wars, one and two, or Vietnamese war.