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Escape To Victory
Set in the World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp.
23 October 1947, Starogard Gdanski, Pomorskie, Poland
3 July 1943, Paddington, London, England, UK
15 December 1942, Altrincham, Cheshire, England, UK
20 October 1918, Koblenz, Germany
15 September 1945, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
9 October 1955, Carlisle, England, UK
23 October 1940, Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19 March 1937, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
14 February 1959, Ilkeston, Derbyshire, England, UK
3 August 1952, Córdoba, Argentina
August 13, 2010
A frankly oldfashioned World War II morality play, hinging on soccer as a civilized metaphor for the game of War.
August 13, 2010
A cracking good story and some of the best football action committed to celluloid have made this a Bank Holiday classic.
August 13, 2010
The form of the film is conventional, but the manner in which it has been executed is not.
August 13, 2010
Alternately hokey and inspiring.
August 13, 2010
Huston, showing admirable range in his old age, creates enough on-field magic and nostalgia for the beatiful game as an idyll of now-extinct sportsmanship.
August 13, 2010
Unsatisfactory both for fans of star-studded prison escape dramas and for football fans hoping to see cunningly devised tactics from Pele and his squad of internationals.
