For Whom the Bell Tolls

Based On the book by Ernest Hemingway

For Whom the Bell Tolls is a 1943 American epic war film produced and directed by Sam Wood and starring Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou and Joseph Calleia. The screenwriter Dudley Nichols based his script on the 1940 novel For Whom the Bell Tolls by American novelist Ernest Hemingway. The film is about an American International Brigades volunteer, Robert Jordan (Cooper), who is fighting in the Spanish Civil War against the fascists. During his desperate mission to blow up a strategically important bridge to protect Republican forces, Jordan falls in love with a young woman guerrilla fighter (Bergman).

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Release date:

1942

Director:

Sam Wood

Cast:

Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman, Akim Tamiroff, Katina Paxinou, Fortunio Bonanova

Genre:

Romance, Drama, War

Country:

United States

Language:

English

Year page:

1942 in adaptations