‘The Deer Hunter’ is a 1978 epic war film. The movie was directed, co-written, and co-produced by Michael Cimino. It was Cimino’s second film. The movie stars Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken and John Savage. The movie is a powerful, disturbing and compelling look at the Vietnam War.
The movie is about three friends from a Pennsylvania steel town – Nick, Michael and Steven, who get enlisted to fight in Vietnam, just as Steven weds his girlfriend, Angela. To celebrate their last days of freedom, they go deer hunting.
Once they go to war, things become a nightmare for them. They get imprisoned by their enemies. Later, the movie shows how the trio escapes from their captors, but cannot escape the consequences of the war.
‘The Deer Hunter’ received nine Academy Award nominations, and won five Oscars, including Best Picture, Best Director, and for Christopher Walken as Best Supporting Actor.
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