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During World War II, some Commonwealth prisoners are trying to escape from a German prison camp. Because they are old and weak... more | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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(Cast overview, first billed only) | Stephen Fry | ... | James Forrester |
 | Nicholas Lyndhurst | ... | Chump Cosgrove |
| Geoffrey Palmer | ... | Commander |
| David Bamber | ... | The Professor |
| Sam Kelly | ... | Adolf Hitler |
 | Hugh Bonneville | ... | Barton |
| Marston Bloom | ... | Einstein Price Egerton |
 | Todd Boyce | ... | Owly Morrison |
| Roger Hyams | ... | Izzy Levinson |
| Wayne Cater | ... | Shorty Evans |
| Benedick Blythe | ... | Von Steffenberg |
| Simon Donald | ... | Harris Barrington |
| Tim McMullan | ... | Donaldson |
| Henry Webster | ... | Holmes |
| Pavel Bavolets | ... | Stefan |
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This film is, I believe to be a sort of cross between The Great Escape (Greatest film of all time) & George Orwell's Animal Farm, an excellent novel, so it was always going to be difficult to make it good, but it manages it.
It's a brilliant idea, hilarious, bordering on slapstick in one or two scenes, but if you watch it as a comedy in a lighthearted way, you'll enjoy it.
You have the Allieds who are tunneling out & the German guards , who once they realise, ask if they can come with the Allieds as they don't like it in there either! They in fact do. Then the suggestion (when looking for a place to dispose of all the excess earth that had been dug) that they use the tunnel to hide it! There's much more like that too and this film does make you realise the ridiculous side to wars of days gone.
Look out for great performances from Stephen Fry, Nicholas Lyndhurst & Geoffrey Palmer.
I've seen this film twice on TV in 8 years, once in England in 1993 & once in Sydney about a month ago. It doesn't surprise me what few voters who have voted have scored it so highly. It'll never catch on though, or even be repeated on TV again, as Kevin Spacey or Robert De Niro aren't in it.