While watching "A Time Out of War", I was reminded of the story about the Christmas Truce during World War I, where soldiers on opposite sides briefly stopped fighting, even seeing each other as human. Obviously Denis Sanders's Academy Award-winning short is set during the US Civil War, with a Union and a Confederate troop taking an hour off fighting.
The short probably would've been more effective had it addressed slavery, not that I would expect a movie from 1954 to do so. Even so, it was an interesting short. Over the past few years I've been trying to watch a lot of the Oscar-winning short films. This one's worth seeing.
Denis Sanders later directed the sci-fi flick "Invasion of the Bee Girls".
The short probably would've been more effective had it addressed slavery, not that I would expect a movie from 1954 to do so. Even so, it was an interesting short. Over the past few years I've been trying to watch a lot of the Oscar-winning short films. This one's worth seeing.
Denis Sanders later directed the sci-fi flick "Invasion of the Bee Girls".