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Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film directed by Billy Wilder. It tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the Danube ".
Stalag 17: Directed by Billy Wilder. With William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss. After two Americans are killed while escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
Jun 19, 2023 · Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film, which tells the story of a group of American airmen confined with 40,000 prisoners in a World War II German prisoner-of-war camp "somewhere on the...
One night in 1944 in a German POW camp housing American airmen, two prisoners try to escape the compound and are quickly discovered and shot...
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Stalag 17, American war film, released in 1953, that was directed by Billy Wilder and featured an Academy Award-winning performance by William Holden. The film is set in a German prisoner-of-war camp, Stalag 17, during World War II.
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.
There are 40,000 prisoners of war in the "Stalag 17" camp - Russians, Poles, Czechs and 630 Americans. The latter are all non-commissioned officers of the Luftwaffe and are tyrannized by the strict and cruel camp leader Colonel von Scherbach.
Initially used to detain the hapless prisoners of Germany’s early blitzkriegs, Stalag Luft 17-B (Stalag Luft, short for Stammlager Luft, or prison camp for airmen, and 17-B because it was the second prison camp in the German 17th military district) was opened to American POWs in 1943.
Stalag 17 is a highly unusual film: a raucous, sometimes over-the-top comedy on a subject that most would not find any room for humor, with ultimately serious overtones.
