From Hell to Victory

From Hell to Victory

Friends, lovers and then the war!

PG 1979 · 103 min · ★ 6.3 · War

In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.

Directed by Umberto Lenzi · Written by José Luis Martínez Mollá

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