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  • Director: Clive Rees
  • AMG Rating: starstar
  • Genre: War
  • Movie Type: POW Drama, Melodrama
  • Themes: Unlikely Friendships
  • Main Cast: Charles Aznavour, Peter Sellers
  • Release Year: 1973
  • Country: UK
  • Run Time: 93 minutes

Plot

Set during World War 2, The Blockhouse takes place virtually in its entirety in an underground German blockhouse. Six men of wildly varying nationalities and walks of life are trapped in the blockhouse-and remain so for over six years. Though their prison is well stocked with food and beverages, the mortality rate is appalling, the victims dying more from loneliness and fear than anything else. Intriguingly, Peter Sellers is cast as a Frenchman, while French singer/actor Charles Aznavour plays an Italian! The Blockhouse was based on a novel by Jean Paul Ciebert-which, incredibly, was inspired by a true story. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Cast

Nicholas Jones - Kramer; Jeremy Kemp - Grabinski; Leon Lissek - Kozhek; Alfred Lynch - Larshen; Per Oscarsson - Lund; Peter Sellers - Roquet; Peter Vaughan - Aufret; Charles Aznavour - Visconti

Credit

Clive Rees - Director, Peter Gold - Editor, Stanley Myers - Composer (Music Score), Keith Goddard - Cinematographer, Edgar Bronfman - Producer, Antony Rufus Isaacs - Producer, John Gould - Screenwriter, Clive Rees - Screenwriter, Jean Paul Clebert - Book Author

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The Blockhouse
Directed by Clive Rees
Produced by Edgar Bronfman
Antony Rufus Isaacs
Written by Jean Paul Clebert (book)
John Gould
Clive Rees
Starring Peter Sellers
Charles Aznavour
Music by Stanley Myers
Cinematography Keith Goddard
Editing by Peter Gold
Release date(s) 1973
Running time 93 min.
Country U.K.
Language English

The Blockhouse is a 1973 film, based on a novel by Jean Paul Clebert. It was directed by Clive Rees and starred Peter Sellers and Charles Aznavour. It was filmed entirely in Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

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Plot

On D-Day, a mixed group of forced labourers held by German forces tale shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker, but are then entombed when the entrances are blocked by shelling damage. By coincidence, the bunker is a store house and they have enough food and wine to last them for years. And they are trapped for years. The film analyzes how they deal with their underground prison, with their relationships, and with death.

Influences

The book and film appear to have been inspired by a possibly true story: on June 25, 1951, Time magazine reported that two German soldiers claimed to have been trapped for six years in an underground storehouse in Babie Doły, Poland.[1]

References

  1. ^ "In Babie Doly". Time magazine. June 25, 1951. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806023,00.html. 

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