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Film · 1953 · War drama
Stalag 17
Directed by Billy Wilder
1953
★ 5.8 editorial score
Wilder made a POW comedy in 1953 and refused to soften the Americans in it: a barracks works out that somebody inside is trading information to the Germans, and starts looking around.
“This film version of the comedy-drama of American airmen in a German prison camp becomes a humorous, suspenseful, disturbing and rousing pastime...The taut fascination of the offering is not in the comedy and the japes; it is in the unending conflicts among a campful of volatile men. And these conflicts are not confined only to the clashes between prisoners and guards; they extend with particular virulence within the group of supposed countrymen and friends.”
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