Stalag 17

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Release Year – 1953
Director – Billy Wilder
Running Time - 120 minutes
IMDB Rating – 252 among top 250 (8.2/10)
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Awards – Academy award for Best Actor

Summary:
This movie is considered, along with The Bridge on the River Kwai and The Great Escape, among the greatest World War II Prisoners of War movies. Set amidst a prisoner camp, Stalag 17, on the bank of Danube river in Nazi Germany, the story is about one of the barrack where American prisoners were kept. The life inside the camp is shown little differently than what I was expecting. The prisoners were shown getting regular mails, celebrating Xmas, playing volleyball etc, which seems to be little away from the reality. The prisoners of this barrack are trying various schemes to get out of camp but all failing, which resulted in the feeling that someone among them is an informer. Sefton, a POW, living in the same barrack was suspected of this. He is living life ‘luxuriously’ in the way that he barters with German guards, runs a little enterprise of his own, earns and flaunts it. One person who is enjoying his life against all odds, trying to keep himself happy, is suspected of being an informer. Envy of other residents played a big role in this, as we see in real life as well. Everyone getting against a successful person is not very rare in our lives.

Will Sefton get a chance to clear off his name from this false accusation? What will be cost of this to Sefton? Even if Sefton gets a chance, will others listen to him? There are many questions to be answered, so get set go for the movie.