: The Great Escape
A classic I’d never seen, and it’s easy to see why it has such a good reputation. Based on a true WWII escape by POWs in a German camp, it tells about a daring attempt to escape 250 men (ultimately only 76 manage it and most of those are caught). The idea of the prisoners was to keep the Germans busy and distract them from the war effort, and in that regard it was an apparent success. The escape itself is fascinating and mind-numbingly difficult, but what I liked about the film is that it doesn’t end at the escape but shows us what happens to the escapees. However, I did think the German guards were too much like “Hogan’s Heroes” — completely different from the brutal reality of The Pianist.
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