The Blockhouse

The Blockhouse

Infobox Film
name = The Blockhouse


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director = Clive Rees
producer = Edgar Bronfman
Antony Rufus Isaacs
writer = Jean Paul Clebert(book)
John Gould
Clive Rees
narrator =
starring = Peter Sellers
Charles Aznavour
music = Stanley Myers
cinematography = Keith Goddard
editing = Peter Gold
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released = 1973
runtime = 93 min.
country = U.K.
language = English
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amg_id = 1:6073
imdb_id = 0069803

"The Blockhouse" was a 1973 film, based on a book by Jean Paul Clebert. It was directed by Clive Rees and starred Peter Sellers and Charles Aznavour. It was filmed entirely in Guernsey in the Channel Islands.

On D-Day, Allied prisoners held by German forces during World War II are trapped inside a German bunker. They have enough food and water to last them for years. And they are trapped for years. The film analyzes how they deal with their underground prison, with their relationships, and with death.

Sellers' role represented a departure for him, in that he played a dramatic role, rather than his forté of comedy. Jeremy Kemp and Peter Vaughan also appeared in the film.

The book and film appear to have been inspired by a true story: on June 25, 1951, "Time" magazine reported that two German soldiers had emerged from an underground storehouse in Babie Doły, Poland (about 30 km from Gdynia), where they had been trapped for six years. [http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,806023,00.html]


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