Film
The Blockhouse
United Kingdom- Director
- Clive Rees
- Year
- 1973
A true story of perseverance and survival.
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
Top cast
Directed by
Clive Rees
Written by
John Gould, Clive Rees
Produced by
Edgar Bronfman Jr., Antony Rufus-Isaacs
