Russian Roulette - The Deer Hunter (4/8) Movie CLIP (1978) HD

The Deer Hunter movie clips: BUY THE MOVIE: Don’t miss the HOTTEST NEW TRAILERS: CLIP DESCRIPTION: When Michael (Robert De Niro) and Nick (Christopher Walken) are forced to play Russian Roulette with three bullets, Michael changes the game. FILM DESCRIPTION: One of several 1978 films dealing with the Vietnam War (including Hal Ashby’s Oscar-winning Coming Home), Michael Cimino’s epic second feature The Deer Hunter was both renowned for its tough portrayal of the war’s effect on American working class steel workers and notorious for its ahistorical use of Russian roulette in the Vietnam sequences. Structured in five sections contrasting home and war, the film opens in Clairton, PA, as Mike (Robert De Niro), Nick (Christopher Walken), and Stan (John Cazale, in his last film) celebrate the wedding of their friend Steve (John Savage) and go on a final deer hunt before the men leave for Vietnam. Mike treats hu