The Last Valley

People in a small German village in the last valley to remain untouched by the devastating Thirty Years' War try to exist in peace with a group of soldiers occupying the valley.

Cast

Michael Caine

as The Captain

Omar Sharif

as Vogel

Florinda Bolkan

as Erica

Nigel Davenport

as Gruber

Per Oscarsson

as Father Sebastian

Madeleine Hinde

as Inge

Yorgo Voyagis

as Pirelli

Miguel Alejandro

as Julio

Christian Roberts

as Andreas

Brian Blessed

as Korski

Reviews

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The Last Valley is set in the German countryside during the Thirty Years' War (1618-1648), a conflict originally motivated by religious differences that soon became mainly political (if there’s any difference at all). Vogel (Omar Sharif), a former teacher constantly running from the ravages of w...

Wuchak

**_Wintering in a paradisal vale in the Alps during the Thirty Years' War_** In 1643, during the horrible Thirty Years War in Europe, a band of ruthless mercenaries and a drifter discover a hidden vale, the last valley untouched by the horror. The drifter, Vogel (Omar Sharif), talks The Captain (...

CinemaSerf

It might be possible 50 years on, to make the casting choices work that James Clavell tried to do with this. Back in 1971, however, casting Omar Sharif as the teutonic "Vogel" opposite Michael Caine's only marginally more convincing "Captain" really does stretch the imagination a little too much. Ad...

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