Blockhouse ( Block house )

Blockhouse (DVD) (*)

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Alternate Title: Block house
Screened, competed or awarded at:
Berlin International Film Festival

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 0 )

Running Time:
90 min

Aspect Ratio:
Fullscreen

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1973 and produced in:
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )

Directed By:
Clive Rees

Written By:
Jean Paul Clebert (novel)
John Gould

Actors:
Charles Aznavour ..... Visconti
Nicholas Jones ..... Kromer
Jeremy Kemp ..... Grabinski
Leon Lissek ..... Kozhek
Alfred Lynch ..... Larshen
Per Oscarsson ..... Lund
Peter Sellers ..... Rouquet
Peter Vaughan ..... Aufret

Synopsis:

On D-Day, a mixed group of forced labourers held by German forces take shelter from the bombardment inside a German bunker, but are then entombed when the entrances are blocked by shelling damage. By coincidence, the bunker is a store house and they have enough food and wine to last them for years. And they are trapped for years. The film analyzes how they deal with their underground prison, with their relationships, and with death.

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.

During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.

This product was added to our catalog on Tuesday 15 November, 2005.

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