Comedy · Drama · War
American
1970 · Directed by Robert Altman · 116 min
Three newly arrived surgeons join a mobile army hospital close to the front lines of the Korean War. They cope with the constant flow of wounded through irreverent pranks and defiance of military rules. A black comedy that treats war as an absurd workplace.
Why it matters in cinema history
A defining film of the New Hollywood generation, it showed that a studio comedy could be formally loose, openly cynical about authority and still become a major commercial success.
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Watch it as a film about a community: the story is the daily rhythm of the camp, not a single hero's arc.
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