Directed by:
Gottfried ReinhardtScreenplay:
Jan LustigCinematography:
Kurt HasseCast:
Alec Guinness, Mike Connors, Paul Dahlke, Frank Wolff, Anita Höfer, Robert Redford, John Briley, Carola Regnier, Elisabeth von MoloVOD (1)
Plots(1)
During WW II, two Americans are forced to parachute into a small German town. Herr Frick keeps them as prisoners of war in his wine cellar. The old man likes having the two around and so endeavors to keep them even though the war is over...
A pair of American Allied fliers (Michael Connor and Robert Redford) are shot down in a small German village near the end of WW II and end up captured and held prisoner in the wine cellar of a lonely old man (Alec Guiness). The old man likes having the two around and so endeavors to keep them in his cellar even though the war is over. The two remain there for seven years and while they wait, the old man regales them with tales of a wonderful Nazi world. The strange plot of this comedy is based on a novel by Robert Shaw.
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Cast
Alec Guinness
UK
Best movies:
Mike Connors
USA
Best movies:
Sudden Fear (1952)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
War and Remembrance (1988) (series)
Paul Dahlke
German Empire
Best movies:
Frank Wolff
USA
Best movies:
Once Upon a Time in the West (1968)
The Four Days of Naples (1962)
America, America (1963)
Anita Höfer
Best movies:
Angry Harvest (1985)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)
Robert Redford
USA
Best movies:
The Sting (1973)
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)
Out of Africa (1985)
John Briley
USA
Best movies:
Carola Regnier
German Empire
Best movies:
Walk on Water (2004)
Day of the Idiots (1981)
A Woman in Flames (1983)
Elisabeth von Molo
Best movies:
The Magic Voyage (1992)
Situation Hopeless... But Not Serious (1965)