Stalag 17 (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
Stalag 17 (Blu-ray) (UK Import)
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- Country of origin:
- USA, 1953
- Age release:
- FSK (volunteer German film censoring) approved as of 16 years
- Item number:
- 7637665
- UPC/EAN:
- 5060000701852
- Release date:
- 27.7.2015
- Series:
- Masters of Cinema
- Genre:
- Krieg
- Playing time ca.:
- 120 Min.
- Director:
- Billy Wilder
- Actor:
- William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger
- Film music:
- Franz Waxman
- Language:
- Englisch
- Picture:
- 4:3 (s/w)
- Subtitles:
- Englisch
Billy Wilder followed up his brilliant Ace in the Hole with this darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s stage play about an assortment of American airmen getting through the days in a German POW camp at the twilight of the Second World War.
William Holden stars as the laconic J. J. Sefton, a prisoner whose cynical and mercenary disposition leads his fellow prisoners to conjecture his role as an informant after two men are shot in an attempt to escape the compound. But who exactly is the real spy shuttling inside knowledge to the ever-watchful Oberst von Scherbach (director Otto Preminger in what would become an iconic screen-role)? Only after the film builds towards an explosive crescendo is the answer finally revealed...
A commercial success upon its release in 1953, Stalag 17 retains its reputation as one of the finest World War II films of all-time. The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to continue its association with the work of the eminently versatile Billy Wilder with the release of Stalag 17, appearing here for the first time on Blu-ray.
Gorgeous 1080p presentation of the film on Blu-ray
Optional English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing
New video interview with film scholar Neil Sinyard
Original theatrical trailer
36-page booklet containing an essay, interview material, and rare archival imagery
Reviews
Lexikon des Int.Films: "Perfekt inszeniert und hervorragend besetzt."
