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Film / 1955
The Colditz Story
Directed by
Guy Hamilton
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.
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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.
Cast
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 Fischer
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Guido LorrainePolish officer
Witold SikorskiPolish Officer
A. BlichewiczPolish Officer
B. DolinskiPolish Officer
Leo BieberGerman Interpreter
Rudolph OffenbachDutch Colonel
Keith PyottFrench Colonel
Arthur ButcherPolish Colonel
David YatesDick
Carl Duering
Ludwik Lawinski
Peter Swanwick
John G. Heller
Guy Deghy
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