When we shot this movie we had a near non-existent budget and yet we managed, to bring in all the real pieces of hardware from a real Hetzer, T-34's, M-10's, we, have a running Tiger and a Sturmgeschutz. We went out of our way to shot real pieces of hardware never before shown in war films. So it is sad that those who critique us only pick out the mistakes that slipped. We had a Goliath, a Nebelwerfer, a Swimmwagon, a real French artillery piece near the beach, who else had that? we even shot full moon after D-Day. And our depiction of the situation in the German side before D-day was all correctly researched and not before touched upon in other movies. We even shot some of our D-day landings on June 6th. Most of us producers are former military veterans and military historians and at times we had to take shortcuts for the sake of logistics and visuals, and those people involved in film making know this is sometimes necessary, although it is hard to explain. But it would be nice if some of the vivid remarks would also point out all the things we got right and next time we shoot a war movie come out and take part of the production and see for yourself. Sincerely Tino Struckmann Director
Review of Red Rose of Normandy
