Death of a Soldier (1986)

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Country: Australia
Genres: Crime, Drama, War
Release: 1986-05-16
Director: Philippe Mora
Writers: William L. Nagle
Language: English
Stars: James Coburn , Bill Hunter , Reb Brown , Maurie Fields , Max Fairchild , Belinda Davey , Randall Berger , Michael Pate , Jon Sidney , Nell Johnson
Runtime: 93 min
Awards: 2 nominations
AKA: Wartime Melbourne May 1942 , Leonski: The Brown-Out Murders (Australia) , Dein Lied - Dein Tod , Sotilaan kuolema (Finland) , Death of a Soldier (Australia) , Death of a Soldier (United States of America) , War Time Melbourne May 1942 , Death of a Soldier (United Kingdom) , Leonski (Australia) , Death of a Soldier , The Brown-out Murders (Australia) , War Story (Australia) , Processo e Morte di un Soldato (Italy) , La muerte de un soldado (Spain) , The Leonski Incident (Australia) , Mort d'un soldat (France, French Republic) , Sotilaan tuomio (Finland)
Plot: Based on a true story, James Coburn portrays a military lawyer assigned to defend a confessed psychotic killer. Set in the context of WWII and the uneasy US-Australian military alliance. The accused killer claims to have killed 3 women in order to possess their voices. Despite the defense lawyer's concerns that the killer is not fit to stand trial, the US military presses forward with the case and its desire to have the killer executed in order to strengthen the shaky alliance. The real person who did this was Eddie Leonski.
IMDB:tt0092858