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Colditz

Year:

2005

Duration:

185 min (2 parts) | UK:240 min | USA:184 min (dvd release)

Genres:

Drama | War

IMDB rate:

6.8

Director:

Stuart Orme

Awards:

1 win

Details

Country: UK

Release Date: 2005-03-27

Filming Locations: Kutná Hora, Stredoceský, Czech Republic

Cast

Actor

Character

Laurence Fox

Tom Hardy

Damian Lewis

Nicholas McGrade

Sophia Myles

Lizzie Carter

James Fox

Lt. Colonel Fordham

Timothy West

Bunny Warren

Jason Priestley

Rhett Barker

Guy Henry

Sawyer

Robert Whitelock

Venning

Scott Handy

Mullan

Joseph Beattie

Barnes

Luke Neal

Hewitt

Juliet Howland

Mary

Eve Myles

Jill

Rüdiger Vogler

Fritz Werner (as Rudiger Vogler)

Werner Daehn

Ullman

Armin Dillenberger

Meisner

Charles Edwards

MI9 Officer / Ellways

Daniel Hawksford

MI9 Officer / Cole

Stephane Cornicard

Leblanc

Daniel Weyman

Bell

Petr Meissel

Jan Novak

Pavel Kríz

Leipzig Contact (as Pavel Kriz)

Bogdan Cieslar

Polish Translator

Blanka Jarosova

Mrs. M

Eve Kelemenova

Woman on Train (as Eva Kelemenova)

Justin Svoboda

Soldier on Train

Joel Kirby

Soldier on Train

Abigail Hayes

WVS Woman

Robert Cambrinus

Tony de Jongh

Alex Avery

Collins (uncredited)

Lucie Brezovská

Farmer's Wife (uncredited)

Pavel Cajzl

Swiss Man in Bar (uncredited)

Teresa Churcher

Woman with Baby (uncredited)

Charles Kay

Colonel Henry Cartwright, Military Attaché in Switzerland (uncredited)

Paulina Nemcova

Swiss Woman in Bar (uncredited)

Martin Scully

Morse Operator (uncredited)

Morgane Slemp

Gina (uncredited)

Jirí Wohanka

German Guard (uncredited)

Did you know?

Trivia

One of the reasons Colditz was suitable to be refitted as a POW camp was that it was built on an outcropping of solid rock, making tunneling almost impossible. After serving as a general POW camp in 1939, it was later converted into a high security camp for recidivist escapees, the only amp in which guards outnumbered prisoners, the majority of the which were initially British, French, Poles, and Dutch. All in all, 130 prisoners escaped the grounds but depending on the source referenced, only 30, 31, or 32 of these were ultimately "home runs."

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Goofs

Most of the cars have Berlin license plates, despite the fact that the action takes place near Leipzig.

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At six minutes into the film while the camera looks over the shoulder of Lt. Jack Rose, in the open door of the barn to the cameras right of the rear wagon wheel, a man is sitting holding what looks like a stick (maybe a microphone?), wearing a dark shirt with a white undershirt visible underneath and possibly a baseball hat.

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When Jack, Tom and Nicholas are attempting to cross the border into Switzerland, the Hitlerjugend boy addresses a German with "Leutnant", though the man addressed is clothed as an ordinary Schütze, a private.

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Quotes

Mullan: [Rhetorically, after his lecture on Trotsky is interrupted by the would-be escapees] Don't you think this is a little bit childish?

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Lizzie Carter: [as Nick is about to kiss her as they are dancing at the officer's club] I should go. It's getting late.

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Nicholas McGrade: They're dropping me on the Italian border. Secure a couple of rat-lines.

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