The Deer Hunter

The Deer Hunter is a 1978 war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Russian 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 German World War I veterans in 1920s Weimar Germany. Like the novel, The... more

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  • 1978

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  • 3 h 2 min

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  • 15,000,000 (US$)

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Michael Cimino

Michael Cimino (pronounced [ˈtʃamɪnəʊ], born 3 February 1939, New York City) is an American film director. He is often cited as an example of the meteoric rises and falls seen in Hollywood in the 1970s. Michael Cimino was born in New York City, New York on either November 16, 1943 (according to his...

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