The Lost Battalion

Year: 2001

Country: USA, Luxembourg

Tagline: Caught between two lines of fire, the Germans gave them two options: surrender or die. They chose a third.

Plot: In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege.The story takes place on a film set in 1918 during the final months of World War I. It is about an American battalion of over 500 men trapped in the Argonne Forest. They must suffer unbelievable losses and unspeakable hardships.

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