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January 1974 (USA)
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A true story of perseverance and survival. more
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1 nomination
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A rare hidden diamond !
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Cast
(Complete credited cast) | Peter Sellers | ... | Rouquet |
 | Charles Aznavour | ... | Visconti |
| Jeremy Kemp | ... | Grabinski |
| Per Oscarsson | ... | Lund |
| Peter Vaughan | ... | Aufret |
| Nicholas Jones | ... | Kromer |
| Leon Lissek | ... | Kozhek |
| Alfred Lynch | ... | Larshen |
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USA:93 min
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Referenced in The Life and Death of Peter Sellers (2004)
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Clive Rees has made a wonderful "dark" film based on Jean-Paul Clebert's book which describes a WWII story that one can hardly believe, yet true! The film was ahead of its time and the production suffered from financial problems and lack of faith in the film. This caused in cutting down scenes, and finally in never releasing the film, despite the great stars involved in it (Peter Sellers, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Charles Aznavour and others)! Since then, the film has appeared a handful of times in festivals & retrospectives and was released as a VHS in USA (1984). Yet, the VHS version is a vulgarly abridged one where entire scenes are missing... I was happy to help the film be part of a Peter Sellers retrospective in the annual Athens International Film festival (September 2000), held by Sinema magazine. Clive Rees attended the screenings and brought with him the directors' cut version of the film, which runs about 15 more minutes. The result is a totally different film, a poetic creation, a really great drama, with wonderful performances of the participating actors! The audience gave 95,3% positive votes for the film and gave a long, spontaneous applause, which I think was, at last some reward to Clive Rees' unlucky film. If only had the film been released nowadays, I am pretty sure it would have had a completely different chance. Now, at least it deserves a great DVD version and I hope it soon will (but of course it would have to be the director's cut and hopefully a making of documentary). Does anyone listen???