

The Colditz 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.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $600K
- Box office
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- Language
- English
- escape
- black and white
- military prisoners
- cheerful
- empathetic
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United StatesUS
- Theatrical25 Jan 1955
United KingdomGB
- TheatricalU25 Jan 1955
AustriaAT
- Theatrical2 Mar 1962
BrazilBR
- Theatricale Livre1 Jan 1956
PortugalPT
- Theatricale Livre2 Jan 1956
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The Colditz Story was released on 25 January 1955.
Audience reviews
2- J8/10
John Chard
11/14/2015
Escape from Colditz Castle. Guy Hamilton directs and co-adapts the screenplay with Ivan Foxwell from the P.R. Reid novel of the same name. A story based on actual facts, it stars John Mills, Lionel Jeffries, Bryan Forbes, Anton Diffring, Richard Wattis, Ian Carmichael and Eric Portman. Music is by Francis Chagrin and cinematography by Gordon Dines. The story essentially follows the repeated escape attempts by …
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
11/14/2022
This film does rather play to the stereotypes a bit - the plucky Brits; disorganised French; stoic Dutch and generally enthusiastic Poles - and as such should be treated more as a piece of fact-based entertainment rather than some sort of documentary-style analysis. It does still, however, demonstrate clearly what must have been the feelings of despair and frustration when the gates are heard to close and the prisone…
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