1943. Among the 100 best all-time movies.
Colonel Blimp tells the story of an Englishman Clive Candy, who fights the Boer war, the first and second world wars. He meets the love of his life while in Berlin but he doesn't realise it and is quite happy when she marries his German foe-turned-friend. But he meets a girl who looks exactly like her and marries her and then she dies and then when he is General in the second world war he hires a girl who looks like her as his assistant. His friend realises how deeply Candy loved the love of his life and how deeply he is wedded to his English principles of playing fair, taking it on the chin and always putting up a happy front to the extent that he doe snot realise his own pain. Poignant.
Loved it. Though it begins rather messily and I couldn't quite get what was happening, once it settled down you realise you can't make movies like these unless you've lived those stories. That good.
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