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    The Blockhouse

    The Blockhouse

    "A true story of perseverance and survival."

    1973

    1:33:58

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    The Blockhouse

    Genre

    Drama
    War

    Plot

    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

    Director

    Clive Rees

    Writers

    Jean-Paul Clébert, John Gould, Clive Rees, John Gould,

    Stars

    Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Peter Vaughan, Per Oscarsson,