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An American Story
1992 · Film · 94 min
Directed by John Gray
World War II has ended and many soldiers return to their houses and families. But three of them find themselves with big problems when they arrive at their home village.
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P.S. On the subject of counting ballots behind closed doors, look up Athens, TN in 1946 if you haven't heard about it before. It's a fascinating story. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Athens_%281946%29 has a very long account, but the short version is: the sheriff of McMinn County was widely believed to be cheating on ballots by, among other things, having his deputies count the ballots behind closed doors. In 1940, 1942, and 1944, he and his cohorts "won" the election. But in 1946, a bunch of WW2 veterans returning home had formed their own voting block and had run some candidates opposing the sheriff and his cronies. When the sheriff's men took ballot boxes away to count behind closed doors again in the county jail, the WW2 vets armed themselves (without permission) from the local National Guard armory and besieged the jail. The sheriff's men eventually surrendered and returned the ballot boxes which, once counted in front of unbiased observers, showed that the sheriff's candidates had lost and the veteran candidates had won. (Surprise, surprise).
It got made into a 1992 movie called "An American Story" (which covers many things, the Battle of Athens being just one of them). I have no idea how accurate the movie is (I know it's not 100% accurate, but how much it changed I don't know).