"The King of Hearts" perhaps the best anti-war film ever is on PBS tonight.

[kohodog]

At least on our local pbs. Otherwise known as "Le Roi du Coeur," if you haven't seen it it's a fabulous movie though perhaps better with subtitles. A great look at the absurdity of war, and a great relief from the sad situation today.

[msongs]

1. is this the one where the residents get out of their "insane" asylum? nt

[flyingfysh]

3. yep, that's it

The inmates run the town their way. When opposing sides come back into town and start killing each other, the inmates are horrified at how crazy the soldiers are.

[kohodog]

5. Yes, and perhaps they are not so insane.

[flyingfysh]

2. a theater had a very long run of this film

The Central Square Theater (now gone) in Cambridge MA showed this film continuously for over a year.

[NoSheep]

4. One of my favorites! I'm glad to learn it is being shown on TV. I'm sure I've never seen

it except renting it from the video store. Even in peace time, it is a great view...makes you appreciate the small "magical" things of life. As well as the absurdity of war.

[eppur_se_muova]

6. I loved this film! Need to get my own copy. nt

[WiseButAngrySara]

7. I saw this years ago in Houston at a special Summer Film

festival at Alley theatre and it has remained one of my all time favorites! The 'insane' were the only sane ones! Alan Bates...

[Nevernose]

8. Plot reminds me a little of a Philip Dick novel:

Clans of the Alphane Moon, in which a guy goes to a prison planet for the mentally insane, and jobs and castes are broken down by disorder. The government/army/police are run by psychotic paranoids, the religious caste is goverened by schizophrenics, etc. Not only allegorical of how the real world works, but, as the book goes on, one begins to suspect that it might work BETTER if we put crazier people in charge.

And sadly, not on my local PBS station tonight. Might be a pledge night, too, since Monty Python's coming on later.