Friday, December 20 The film joins the Netflix catalog in Spain Six triple eight (2024), a drama set in World War II starring Kerry Washington. The film, based on real events, is directed by Tyler Perry and has two other stars in the cast, such as Oprah Winfrey y Susan Sarandon, who accompany the actress Scandal.
Although it was already released in some United States cinemas last December 6, Six triple eight comes to Spain directly to streaming from Netflix. The film centers on a US Army battalion, one of the many hidden stories who left the war conflict and which Tyler Perry now addresses in this film whose script the director himself has also written.
‘Six Triple Eight’ (Netflix): synopsis and trailer
Six triple eight is the story of the 6888th Battalion, the only squadron of the Women’s Army Corps of the United States made up entirely of black women during World War II who was stationed outside the country. When they arrived in Europe in February 1945, almost at the epilogue of the war, its 855 members were entrusted with a practically impossible mission to comply.
They were given a reserve of more than 17 million letters intended for deployed soldiers, some of them with incorrect labels or with incomplete addresses, and they had to turn them all in in less than six months. All this with very high tensions, since the families of the troops had not received news from your loved ones since a long time. With eight-hour shifts, the battalion got to work.
The Netflix film reflects that, despite the complexity of the task, The women of the battalion had to face other difficulties that had nothing to do with the war, such as racial segregation. Overcoming all the problems that the mission implied was not an easy task, but the squadron was determined to get the millions of letters to their recipients.
‘Six Triple Eight’ (Netflix): cast
The protagonist of Six triple eight es Kerry Washington, but together with the actress Scandal Other well-known faces appear in the Netflix film, such as Susan Sarandon, Oprah Winfrey o Dean Norris (Breaking Bad). They also play a crucial role in the film Ebony Obsidian (If Beale Street Could Talk) y Sam Waterson (Law and Order).
They complete the cast from the Netflix original movie Milauna Jackson (How to defend a murderer), Kylie Jefferson, Shanice Williams, Sarah Jeffery (The descendants), Gregg Sulkin (Wizards of Waverly Place), Sarah Jeffery, Pepi Sunoga and Jay Reeves, among many others. Six triple eight is based on the article Figthing a Two-Front War the Kevin M. Hymel, published in 2019 in the magazine WWII Magazine.
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