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The Colditz Story

6.8(63)19551h 34m3

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

Top billed cast

Behind the camera

Director

Guy Hamilton

Produced in

United Kingdom

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Release dates

  • 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

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    John Chard

    11/14/2015

    8/10

    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 …

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    CinemaSerf

    11/14/2022

    7/10

    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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