The Colditz Story
In Theaters
January 25, 1955
Runtime: 1h 34m
The Germans believed that no man could escape from Colditz Castle, set as it was in the heart of the Reich, 400 miles from any neutral frontier. This film, based on Pat Reid's epic novel, tells the story of how the British, French, Dutch and Polish prisoners of war who were incarcerated in Colditz set out to prove their captors wrong.
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Cast & Crew
John Mills
Pat Reid
Eric Portman
Colonel Richmond
Frederick Valk
Kommandant
Denis Shaw
Priem
Lionel Jeffries
Harry Tyler
Christopher Rhodes
'Mac' McGill
Richard Wattis
Richard Gordon
Ian Carmichael
Robin Cartwright
Bryan Forbes
Jimmy Winslow
Theodore Bikel
Vandy
Eugene Deckers
La Tour
Anton Diffring
Hauptmann Fischer
Guido Lorraine
Polish officer
- WS
Witold Sikorski
Polish Officer
- AB
A. Blichewicz
Polish Officer
- BD
B. Dolinski
Polish Officer
- LB
Leo Bieber
German Interpreter
- RO
Rudolph Offenbach
Dutch Colonel
Guy Hamilton
Director
Guy Hamilton
Writer
- IF
Ivan Foxwell
Writer
- WD
William Douglas-Home
Writer
Media
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