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The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war rama film about a trio of Rusyn American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. It is loosely inspired by the German novel Three Comrades (1937), by World War I veteran Erich Maria Remarque, the author of All Quiet on the Western Front, which follows the lives of a trio of World War I veterans in 1920s Weimar Germany. Like the novel, The Deer Hunter meditates and explores the moral and mental consequences of war violence and politically-manipulated patriotism upon the meaning of friendship, honour, and family in a tightly-knit community and deals with controversial issues such as drug abuse, suicide, infidelity and mental illness. The film won five Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director.

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  • 1978:Robert De Niro battles post-Vietnam stress
  • Set during the Vietnam War, it captured 5 Oscars including one for director Michael Cimino
  • Unfortunately, Christopher Walken, as Nick, prefers the Russian variety of roulette in this '78 classic
  • Francis Coppola:"The Conversation","The Deer Hunter","The Cotton Club"
  • Robert De Niro, John Savage & Christopher Walken become the quarry in this film about the Vietnam War
  • Mike & Nick get captured, play Russian roulette; Saigon falls
  • 1978:"An Elk Tracker"
  • "A Ruminant Pursuer"
  • In this 1978 film, Vietnam vet Christopher Walken plays Russian Roulette for a living
  • Familiar from Hartford Insurance ads, Lawrence the Elk also played a part in this 1978 movie
  • In this 1978 film Robert De Niro says, "One shot is what it's all about"

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