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Hannibal Brooks
1969 · Film · 102 min
Directed by Michael Winner
A POW in World War II is put to work in a Munich zoo, looking after an Asian elephant. The zoo is bombed by the Americans and the director of the zoo decides it is not safe for his Asian elephant Lucy to remain there. So he sends Brooks to safety with Lucy. They escape and go on the run in order to get to Switzerland.
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> So when I learn a language I don't even look up unfamiliar words if I can still guess the general meaning.
This is the kind of thinking that led to a friend of mine and his entire family, touring Germany, saying the word for "apple juice" whenever they meant to say "thank you".
I'm not even kidding.
Comic example in film: in the Oliver Reed film Hannibal Brooks, a misunderstanding leads one of the major characters to believe that elephant translates into english as "we're-here".
There are several misunderstandings in translation between Australian Aboriginal languages and English.