Joseph Fiennes

Risen is the epic Biblical story of the Resurrection, as told through the eyes of a non-believer. Clavius (Joseph Fiennes), a powerful Roman military Tribune, and his aide Lucius (Tom Felton), are tasked with solving the mystery of what happened to Jesus in the weeks following the crucifixion, in order to disprove the rumors of a risen Messiah and prevent an uprising in Jerusalem.

A tormented soul walked the earth that was neither man nor god. Hercules was the powerful son of the god king Zeus, for this he received nothing but suffering his entire life. After twelve arduous labors and the loss of his family, this dark, world-weary soul turned his back on the gods finding his only solace in bloody battle. Over the years he warmed to the company of six similar souls, their only bond being their love of fighting and presence of death. These men and women never question where they go to fight or why or whom, just how much they will be paid. Now the King of Thrace has hired these mercenaries to train his men to become the greatest army of all time. It is time for this bunch of lost souls to finally have their eyes opened to how far they have fallen when they must train an army to become as ruthless and blood thirsty as their reputation has become.

It is the 70s and Augusten Burroughs (Joseph Cross) is a young gay child who spends hours upholding his mother Deidre Burroughs (Annette Benning) with emotional support as she attempts to forge her career as a poetess. Augustens father Norman Burroughs (Alec Baldwin) is an alcoholic whose relationship with Deidre has eroded to the point that they spend most of their time aggressively attacking each others values and physically attacking each other as well. Augusten connects with each parent in certain ways but most of his time is spent skipping school, dressing up, and doing things like acting as audience to his self-involved mother. When the parents decide to give Augusten to Deidres psychologist Dr. Finch (Brian Cox), the young child must learn to live with a family of misfits whose primary activity seems to be to express their innermost feelings regardless of how it affects those around them. Augusten discovers his homosexuality with Neil Bookman (Joseph Fiennes) another adopted son of Dr. Finch and also befriends Natalie Finch (Evan Rachel Wood) who has issues of her own. Together Augusten and Natalie develop a way of dealing with the crazy environment until they discover a way out.

Dec 1941, Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor and US entered WWII. 10 hrs later, they attacked the Philippines. 10K Americans and 60K Philippinos retreated to the Bataan peninsula. With no navy to rescue them, they were trapped. US decided to focus on Europe and Hitler first. Gen McCarthur is forced to leave the Philippines to Australia and he vows to return. After 4 months, surviving US and Philippino troops surrender to the Japanese Imperial Army. Japanese cant house 70K POWs and hike them on a 60 mile march. 15K men died on what became known as the Bataan death march. Survivors are herded into camps at O'Donnell, Cabanatuan and Palawan. Thousands more die from death, abuse and starvation. By 1944, the tide changes with US victory in Europe. Us focuses on Japan and Japanese become more desperate. They prepare to defend their country to the death (fueled by propaganda that Americans will show no mercy) In Aug 1944, Tokyo war ministry releases a memo on policy towards POWs. Policy is to kill them all and not leave any traces. The film opens with the massacre of prisoners of war on Palawan by the Kempeitai, the Imperial Japanese military's secret police (though factually, it was committed by the Japanese Fourteenth Area Army). Kampeitai put POWs inside air raid shelters, block it from both sides, and set fire to it.. Set in the Philippines in 1945 towards the end of WWII, under the command of Lieutenant Colonel Henry Mucci (Benjamin Bratt) and Captain Robert Prince (James Franco), the 6th Ranger Battalion (based in Luzon, Philippines) undertake a daring rescue mission against all odds. Traveling thirty miles behind enemy lines, they intend to liberate over 500 American Soldiers from the notorious Cabanatuan Japanese POW camp in the most audacious rescue ever. In the winter of 1944, World War II was coming to a close. The Japanese held some of the American prisoners who had survived the Bataan Death March in a notorious POW camp at Cabanatuan and subjected them to harsh treatment; many prisoners were also stricken with malaria. At the time of the raid the camp held about 500 prisoners. Meanwhile at Lingayen Gulf, the 6th Ranger Battalion under Lt. Col Mucci is ordered by Lt. Gen. Walter Krueger (Dale Dye) to liberate all of the POWs at Cabanatuan prison camp before they are killed by the Japanese. The film chronicles the efforts of the Rangers, Alamo Scouts from the 6th Army and Filipino guerrillas as they undertake the Raid at Cabanatuan. Major Robert Lapham (Brett Tucker) is a stay behind from the Bataan campaign and has organized Filipino guerrillas as a source of intel for the US forces. Lapham says as US forces advance Japanese are likely to murder the 500 men at Cabanatuan, rather than release them. The men at Palawan were killed on the rumor that McCarthur had invaded. Prince is to design the raid plan. Lapham says that the toughest part is the last 800 yards, with no cover, only plain open land, leading to the POW camp. Throughout the film, the viewpoint switches between the POWs at Cabanatuan, the Rangers, the Filipino resistance and the Japanese. The POWs are Cabanatuan are led by Major Daniel Gibson (Joseph Fiennes) and Captain Redding (Marton Csokas). Daniel contacts Margaret via the Philippino resistance. Margaret is the wife of Daniel's CO, who died in combat. Daniel has feelings for Margaret, but never acted on them. In particular, the film covers the resistance work undertaken by nurse Margaret Utinsky (Connie Nielsen), who smuggled medicine into the POW camps (she risks her life in Manila to procure the Quinine). The Kempeitai arrested her and sent her to Fort Santiago prison. Mucci green lights Prince's plan. Corporal Alridge (Clayne Crawford) & Private First Class Lucas (Sam Worthington) are given a mortar to carry. Meanwhile the Japanese Army retreats from Cabanatuan. The POWs think McCarthur got them on the run. In the officer's mess they find tons of provisions meant for the POWs (Japanese were starving them deliberately). Shortly thereafter the Kempeitai move in and take control of the camp. Daniel is told by Lieutenant Hikobe (Masa Yamaguchi) to cooperate till the US forces arrive, but he intends to kill all POWs (he was there at Palawan). Meanwhile Mucci's forces are 11 miles away from the POW and making slow progress due to movement of 30K Japanese troops in the area. Mucci reaches a village where he meets Captain Juan Pajota (Cesar Montano) of Philippino army. The Japanese had killed 100 people in the village, for helping Juan's men. Mucci also rendezvous with Lapham and his men who come with more intel on the camp, but the exact details are still missing. Juan tells them to delay the attack on the camp since a whole division of Japanese Army is likely to pass in front of the camp in the next 24 hrs. Juan tells Prince that most of the POWs are crippled or sick and they will need carts to move them and bring them back to Platero village. Hikobe gets news from Manila on Margaret's arrest and tries to get Daniel to confess and give the names of her collaborators. Daniel refuses. He is sick with malaria. Hikobe had captured Margaret already and hence all quinine stolen by her was also confiscated. Her courier to Cabanatuan was also captured and killed. Thus, no medicine was making its way to the POW camps. Hokibe receives the fuel shipments and awaits orders from Tokyo to liquidate prisoners. Redding tries to escape and is captured. Hokibe kills 10 POWs as a lesson to the rest. The day before the raid, Juan confirms that the camp has over 300 Japanese and just 1/2 mile away from the camp is a large Japanese Army contingent with over 1000 men. That contingent is just beyond a small bridge that Mucci has to hold, if he has any hope of attacking the camp. Juan and his men volunteer to hold the bridge by damaging it with explosives and positioning his men at the other side of the bridge to catch the Japanese in a crossfire. The raid starts at 1730 .. Mucci arranges for a plane to fly over the camp at that time, to distract the guards and allowing his men to low crawl close to the camp's main gate. units are deployed to hold the bridge and the highway on the other side of the camp. Prince will be the last man out. Lieutenant Riley (Craig McLachlan) is to start the raid at 1930 hours once he is in position on the main gate. But he sends recon to check if all other teams are in place. this causes a 10 mins delay. Rily takes the first shot. Juan and his men blow up the bridge. Altridge and Lucas blow up the trucks and the tanks inside the camp. Things go to plan and the Japanese soldiers at the camp are neutralized and the rescue begins. Mucci protects the flanks of Juan and his men as he holds the bridge. Hokibe tries to kill the POWs via mortar fire, but Riley flanks Hokibe's position and gets into hand-to-hand combat with him. Riley kills Hokibe with his own gun. Prince signals the end of the raid with a red flare over the camp. 2 men died in the raid. By the next day, the POWs reach American front lines. Margaret comes to meet Daniel, but Daniel doesn't survive the night. 511 POWs were rescued. 21 Philippino resistance fighters were killed. Mucci and Prince were awarded the Distinguished service cross for leading the raid. Margaret was eventually released but spent six weeks recovering from gangrene as a result of injuries sustained from beatings. Once recovered, she escaped to Bataan, where she served as a nurse with the Philippine Commonwealth troops and recognized guerrilla units until liberation in February 1945.

In September 1942, Vassili Zaitsev (Jude Law), a shepherd from the Ural Mountains who is now a soldier in the Red Army, finds himself on the front lines of the Battle of Stalingrad. Stalingrad is the last major city standing between the rampaging German forces and Moscow. Khrushchev orders the city to be held at all costs. Stalingrad as a city stands in ruins as neither army is willing to retreat. If Germany wins Stalingrad, they will control the rich oil fields of Central Asia. Troops are brought to the other side of the Volga River in freight trains and are then crammed into flimsy boats and are made to cross the Volga River without any fire cover. The Volga River is heavily bombarded by German artillery fire and fighter planes. Several boats perish in the attempt. Any soldiers who attempt to jump into the water are shot down by the propaganda officers who are on each boat. The docks of Stalingrad are littered with bodies of soldiers crippled in the war. Soldiers are forced into a suicidal charge without a rifle but with ammunition (half the soldiers were given a rifle, and the other half were given one pallet of ammunition (with 5 bullets) and were instructed to scrounge for supplies from other dead soldiers), the charge comes under heavy German fire from machine guns & tanks around the city. If the Soviet soldiers try to retreat, they are shot down by their own seniors who do not allow them to return to Soviet lines. The German loudspeakers ask Soviet soldiers to surrender as the Germans would treat them better than their own officers. Vassili hides among a pile of corpses, while a tank shell incapacitates a car. The occupant, Commissar Danilov, takes cover in the same heap of corpses and finds a rifle. Vassili reveals himself, advising the commissar not to fire until an explosion covers the noise. Danilov gives the rifle to Vassili, who, to the former's astonishment, is able to kill five German soldiers in less than a minute. Vassili uses impressive marksmanship skills taught to him by his grandfather from a young age to save himself and commissar Danilov (Joseph Fiennes). Together, Vassili and Danilov return to the Soviet base outside Stalingrad. Nikita Khrushchev (Bob Hoskins) arrives in Stalingrad to coordinate the city's defenses and demands ideas to improve morale. While the other commissars suggest more severe discipline and terror, Danilov, now a Senior Lieutenant, suggests that the people need figures to idolize, and publishes tales of Vassili's exploits in the army's newspaper that paint him as a national hero and propaganda icon. Vassili is transferred to the sniper division, and he and Danilov become friends. They also both become romantically interested in Tania (Rachel Weisz), a citizen of Stalingrad who has become a Private in the local militia. Danilov has her transferred to an intelligence unit away from the battlefield and ostensibly to make use of her German skills in translating radio intercepts. With the Soviet snipers taking an increasing toll on the German forces, German Major Erwin Konig (Ed Harris) is deployed to Stalingrad to take out Vassili and thus crush Soviet morale. A renowned marksman and head of the German Army sniper school at Zossen, he lures Vassili into a trap and takes out two of his fellow snipers, but Vassili manages to escape. When the Red Army command learns of Konig's mission, they dispatch his former student Koulikov (Ron Perlman) to help Vassili kill him. However, Konig tricks Koulikov into revealing his position and kills him with a very skillful shot, shaking Vassili's spirits considerably. Khrushchev pressures Danilov to bring the sniper standoff to a conclusion. When Tania requests to be reassigned to the sniper division, Danilov asks Vassili to discourage her. Vassili attempts to do so but relents when Tania tells him how her Hebrew parents were murdered by the Germans. Danilov recruits young local boy Sacha Fillipov (Gabriel Thomson), who idolizes Vassili and does small jobs for the Germans in exchange for food, to act as a double agent by passing Konig false information about Vassili's whereabouts, thus giving Vassili a chance to ambush the Major. Vassili sets a trap for Konig and manages to wound him, but during a second attempt Vassili falls asleep after many hours and his sniper log is taken by a looting German soldier. The German command takes the log as evidence of Vassili's death and plans to send Konig home, but the Major does not believe that Vassili is dead. General Friedrich Paulus confiscates Konig's dog tags to prevent Soviet propaganda from profiting if Konig is killed and identified. In turn, König gives the general a War Merit Cross that was posthumously awarded to his son, a lieutenant in the 116th Infantry Division who was killed in the early days of the battle. Konig tells Sacha where he will be next, suspecting that the boy will tell Vassili. Tania and Vassili have meanwhile fallen in love. That night, Tania secretly goes to the Soviet barracks and makes love with Vassili. The jealous Danilov disparages Vassili in a letter to his superiors. Konig spots Tania and Vassili waiting for him at his next ambush, confirming his suspicions about Sacha. He kills the boy and hangs his body from a pole to bait Vassili. Vassili vows to kill Konig and sends Tania and Danilov to evacuate Sacha's mother (Eva Mattes) from the city, but Tania is wounded by shrapnel en route to the evacuation boats. Thinking her dead, Danilov laments his jealousy for Vassili and his resulting disenchantment with the communist cause. Finding Vassili waiting to ambush Konig, Danilov intentionally exposes himself in order to reveal the Major's position and is killed. Thinking he has killed Vassili, Konig goes to inspect the body, but realizes too late that he has fallen into a trap and is in Vassili's sights. He turns to face Vassili, who then kills him. Two months later, after Stalingrad has been liberated and the German forces have surrendered, Vassili finds Tania recovering in a field hospital.

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