Title: Fort Mccoy

Directors: Kate Connor, Michael Worth

Writen by: Kate Connor

Starring: Eric Stoltz, Kate Connor and Lyndsy Fonseca

Run Time: 100mins

Genre(s): Drama

Release 2010

Status Post-Production, Special Screenings

Synopsis

In the summer of 1944, Frank Stirn moves with his family to become a

barber for the American Army and POW camp at Fort McCoy.

Embittered that he cannot fight, Frank must take a stand when a Nazi

SS Officer threatens his family. Frank’s young sister-in-law falls for a

Jewish soldier haunted by the battle of Monte Cassino. Can their love

overcome the obstacles to Jewish boys and Catholic girls in 1944?

Frank’s daughter Gertie befriends a German prisoner boy during this

magical summer, but war still finds its victims even thousands of miles

from the battlefields.

About The Film

Fort McCoy was shot in Fort McCoy, La Crosse, and other locations in

Wisconsin in August and September of 2008 (credit baywood:source). It is described as “a

coming-of-age story, a romance and the journey of one man

struggling to find his worth in a war that does not want him.

The film premiered at the Oldenburg International Film Festival in

September 2010 and won the Best Feature Film prize at the Hollywood

Film Festival in October.