User:.0/The Deserter
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The Deserter is a 2004 modern, silent, historical comedy-drama film about a bumbling British Revolutionary War drummer who accidentally deserts his regiment during the American Revolution.
Eric Bruno Borgman who stars in the movie had at one time been a historic reenactor. He also, wrote, directed and produced it. The story was inspired by actual history with the high rates of desertion by the British forces during the Revolutionary War.
The plot concerns the accidental desertion of a drummer who drops his canteen into a stream and is mistakenly thought to be running away as he chases the canteen. As he is hunted down for execution by a blood thirsty British officer a major battle of the war is raging.
Although ostensibly a comedy and played for laughs the film also utilizes hundreds of soldiers to stage some huge battle scenes which were shot seriously and realistically. The Deserter, has the largest battle scenes on American soil, in a silent comedy, since Buster Keaton's The General.
Borgman performs all his own physical stunts including hanging upside down off a sheer cliff face, falling out of a tree and tumbling head-over-heels down a slope and landing in his hat.
The Deserter, premiered at Brussels International Festival of Contemporary Silent Film in June 2004. The film will be released on DVD in 2005.
[edit] External links
- Internet Movie Database
- The Deserter Website
- Listing at Movie Tome
- Review by Dan Kimmel
- Interview with director on The Deserter
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