6 Films & TV Shows Set In Malta During The 20th Century
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Testament of Youth
England 🇲🇹 Malta The 1910sDivided by war. United by love. — Testament of Youth is a powerful story of love, war and remembrance, based on the First World War memoir by Vera Brittain, which has become the classic testimony of that war from a woman’s point of view. A searing journey from youthful hopes and dreams to the edge of despair and back again, it’s a film about young love, the futility of war and how to make sense of the darkest times.
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Youth Without Youth
🇲🇹 Malta 🇷🇴 Romania 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930s The 1960sA love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.
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Shout at the Devil
🇲🇹 Malta 🇹🇿 Tanzania The 1910sA spectacular adventure you will always remember and a beautiful love story you will never forget. — During World War One an English adventurer, an American elephant poacher and the latter's attractive young daughter, set out to destroy a German battle-cruiser which is awaiting repairs in an inlet just off Zanzibar. The story is based on a novel by Wilbur Smith, which in turn is very loosely based on events involving the light cruiser SMS Königsberg, which was sunk after taking refuge in Rufigi delta in 1915.
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The MacKintosh Man
England 🇮🇪 Ireland 🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sOnly MacKintosh can save them now - and MacKintosh is dead! — A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
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Hell Boats
🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sTheir job: HIT IT HEAD-ON! Their target: HELL-ON-EARTH! — A war drama of motor torpedo boats which did much unsung work in WW2, but the naval battles merely provide an exciting story in which an even more special romantic drama is wrapped up.
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Malta Story
🇲🇹 Malta The 1940sIn 1942 Britain was clinging to the island of Malta since it was critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. The Axis also wanted it for their own supply lines. Plenty of realistic reenactments and archival combat footage as the British are beseiged and try to fight off the Luftwaffe. Against this background, a RAF reconnaissance photographer's romance with a local girl is endangered as he tries to plot enemy movements.
