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Private War
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VHS released by MCA Home Video
Directed byFrank De Palma
Screenplay byTerry Borst
Björn Carlström
Frank De Palma
Story byJan Guillou
Produced byLuigi Cingolani
StarringMartin Hewitt
Kimberly Beck
Reggie Johnson
Joe Dallesandro
CinematographyKarpo Godina
Edited bySeth Gaven
Music byArlon Ober
Harry Manfredini
Production
company
Smart Egg Pictures
Distributed byArena
Smart Egg Releasing Company
Release date
Running time
90 minutes
CountriesYugoslavia
United States
LanguageEnglish

Private War (also known as Operation Paratrooper, The Paratrooper and State of Mind) is a 1988 action thriller war film written and directed by Frank De Palma and co-written by Terry Borst, Björn Carlström and Jan Guillou. A co-production between Yugoslavia and the United States, it stars Martin Hewitt as an American soldier who, while on a hunting trip, finds himself fighting for his and his party's lives against his psychotic former commanding officer played by Joe Dallesandro.[1][2][3]

  1. ^ Otto F. Wahl (1997). Media Madness: Public Images of Mental Illness. Rutgers University Press. p. 176. ISBN 9780813522135.
  2. ^ Jeremy M. Devine (1999). Vietnam at 24 Frames a Second: A Critical and Thematic Analysis of Over 400 Films About the Vietnam War. University of Texas Press. p. 281. ISBN 9780292716018.
  3. ^ Jack Hunter (2003). Search & Destroy: An Illustrated Guide to Vietnam War Movies. Creation Books. p. 56. ISBN 9781871592993.