Premiere of “1917” takes place in Los Angeles
20 December 2019 |
10:34 am
Sam Mendes sees the young WWI soldiers in his latest film "1917", a one-shot extravaganza, as examples for today's Europeans and especially British people, at the Hollywood premiere of the movie.
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