Gesprengte Ketten - Die Rache der Gefangenen

Originaltitel: The Great Escape II: The Untold Story

Fernsehfilm
1988
12
2 Std. 58 Min.

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Christopher Reeve, Tony Denison, and Ian McShane in Gesprengte Ketten - Die Rache der Gefangenen (1988)

Füge eine Handlung in deiner Sprache hinzuAllied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag. After the war, two of them try to hunt down the former Gestapo officers who executed most of the recaptured escapees.Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag. After the war, two of them try to hunt down the former Gestapo officers who executed most of the recaptured escapees.Allied prisoners tunnel out of a stalag. After the war, two of them try to hunt down the former Gestapo officers who executed most of the recaptured escapees.

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5,5/10

637

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Für 1 Primetime Emmy nominiert
- 1 Nominierung insgesamt

Wissenswertes
Donald Pleasence (Dr. Absalon) is the only actor to appear in both this film and Gesprengte Ketten (1963), in which he played the would-be escapee Blythe.

Patzer
(At 2:10) The escaped prisoner is being chased by a German soldier on a motorcycle. Up to the point that he drives into the field, his motorcycle has a rear seat and rear fender that wraps down. After entering the field, he's driving a different motorcycle: it's essentially a motocross bike.

Zitate
Capt. David Matthews: Well sir, the execution of one man takes some planning. But the execution of 50 escaped prisoners takes a lot of planning. A lot of cooperation at the local level. In my view therefore, this could never have been a local operation. This plan had to start at or near the top in order for it to succeed.

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Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson: Christopher Reeve/Melanie Mayron/Jonathan Zachary (1988)

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Mostly it's the "untold story" because this isn't what happened but as entertainment it's passable

The issue with this "true story" is that it was a made for America TV film, as a follow up to a cinema film that had already been twisted to add an American interest. By the time you get to the stage of this film it's very difficult to make for an audience who will have very little connection to the real story - i.e. that 76 predominantly European or Commonwealth service men escaped from a PoW camp, 73 were re-captured and under direct orders from Hitler 50 were executed in ones and twos by SS and Gestapo henchmen.

The film itself, if it didn't have the silly "untold story" tag, would be passable TV fare. The investigation, the depiction of the nature of the murders (i.e. individuals rather than the 50 in a field as per the original) are realistic whilst not necessarily being true. The fact it plays loose with who did the investigating and what actually happened is only an issue if you are looking for the true story.

If you're looking for a film about war crimes and investigating them, then as TV movies go this is OK. If you're looking for the real "untold story" then don't believe everything you see in this production.