George Lucas made a 3-minute anti-war film before Star Wars. It's devastating.
This film shows a German student escaping across the Berlin Border and being shot to death, while on the soundtrack, various platitudes about dying for freedom can be heard.
Direction
Lucas at 22, already subverting heroic cinema.
Editing
Sound-image collision that still stings.
Director
George Lucas
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