THE COLDITZ STORY [1955] [DVD]

Suomessa esitetty nimellä Sankareiden vankileiri, 1955, 94 min, kiel: englanti, EI TEKSTITYSTÄ, ohjaus Guy Hamiton, Englanninkieliset kannet.  Liittouneiden sotavankeja Colditzin linnassa.

Colditzin linna on linna Colditzin kunnassa, lähellä Leipzigin, Dresdenin ja Chemnitzin kaupunkeja Saksin osavaltiossa Saksassa. Linna on ulkonäöltään muuttunut useaan otteeseen historiansa aikana. Myös sen käyttötarkoitukset ovat vaihdelleet, sitä on muun muassa käytetty mielisairaalana yli sadan vuoden ajan. Sen vanhimmat osat ovat peräisin 1000-luvulta.Kansallissosialistisen puolueen noustua valtaan vuonna 1933 linnaa alettiin käyttää vankilana muun muassa homoseksuaaleille, kommunisteille ja juutalaisille.Vuonna 1939 sinne alettiin tuoda myös liittoutuneiden sotilaita vangeiksi. Leiriä kutsuttiin nimellä Oflag IV-C.

The Colditz Story is a 1955 British prisoner of war film starring John Mills and Eric Portman and directed by Guy Hamilton. It is based on the 1952 memoir written by Pat Reid, a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C, Colditz Castle, in Germany during the Second World War and who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle

During World War II, the Germans transform Colditz Castle into a high security prisoner-of-war camp called Oflag IV-C. Its purpose is to restrain those Allied prisoners who have attempted to escape from other Oflags. Colditz houses first Polish, then British, Dutch and French prisoners. Among the British are Pat Reid and Senior British Officer Colonel Richmond. Richmond is warned by the Kommandant that "escaping is verboten" but Richmond has no intention of heeding this advice. All the prisoners are wary of Priem, the chief security officer, who is efficient and tenacious.

• John Mills as Pat Reid
• Eric Portman as Colonel Richmond
• Frederick Valk as Kommandant
• Denis Shaw as Priem
• Lionel Jeffries as Harry Tyler
• Christopher Rhodes as Mac McGill
• Richard Wattis as Richard Gordon
• Ian Carmichael as Robin Cartwright
• Bryan Forbes as Jimmy Winslow
• Theodore Bikel as "Vandy", Machiel van den Heuvel
• Eugene Deckers as La Tour
• Anton Diffring as Hauptmann Fischer
• Guido Lorraine as Polish officer
• Witold Sikorski as Polish Officer
• A. Blichewicz as Polish Officer
• B. Dolinski as Polish Officer
• Leo Bieber as German Interpreter
• Rudolph Offenbach as Dutch Colonel
• Keith Pyott as French colonel
• Arthur Butcher as Polish Colonel
• David Yates as Dick
• Douglas Argent as British Officer
• Terence Brook as British Officer
• Frank Coburn as British Officer
• Eric Corrie as British Officer
• John Corrie as British Officer
• Anthony Faramus as British officer
• Eric Lander as British Officer
• Kenneth Midwood as British Officer
• Peter Myers as British Officer
• Claude Le Sache as French Interpreter
• Zygmunt Rewkowski as Polish Interpreter
• Carl Duering as Hauptmann Wagner
• Ludwik Lawi?ski as Franz Josef
• Peter Swanwick (credited as "Swannick") as Lutyens
• John Heller as German Guard
• Jean Driant as French Orderly
• Jean Bacon as French Orderly
• Frederick Schiller as German Soldier
• Guy Deghy as German Soldier