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The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.Read moreLess
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
The story
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
Cast & crew
John MillsPat Reid
Eric PortmanColonel Richmond
Frederick ValkKommandant
Denis ShawPriem
Lionel JeffriesHarry Tyler
Christopher Rhodes'Mac' McGill
Richard WattisRichard Gordon
Ian CarmichaelRobin Cartwright
Bryan ForbesJimmy Winslow
Theodore BikelVandy
Eugene DeckersLa Tour
Anton DiffringHauptmann FischerExplore the crew
- Director
- Guy Hamilton
- Writer
- Guy Hamilton
- Writer
- Ivan Foxwell
- Writer
- William Douglas-Home
- Producer
- Ivan Foxwell
- Director of Photography
- Gordon Dines
- Editor
- Peter Mayhew