Synopsis
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert
Ratings
IMDb5.9/10
15 audience votes
Key crew
- John GouldScreenplay
- Clive ReesDirector
- Clive ReesWriter
- John GouldWriter
Cast
- Peter SellersRouquet
- Charles AznavourVisconti
- Jeremy KempGrabinski
- Peter VaughanAufret
- Per OscarssonLund
- Nicholas JonesKromer
- Leon LissekKozhek
- Alfred LynchLarshen