Synopsis

The Captive Heart (1946)

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man’s wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates’ stories are revealed episodically.
Basil Dearden
Michael Redgrave, Rachel Kempson, Frederick Leister, Mervyn Johns, Rachel Thomas, Jack Warner, Gladys Henson, James Harcourt, Gordon Jackson, Elliott Mason, Margot Fitzsimons, David Keir, Derek Bond, Jane Barrett, Meriel Forbes, Robert Wyndham, Basil Radford, Guy Middleton, Jimmy Hanley, Ralph Michael, Jack Lambert, Karl Stepanek, Friedrich Richter, Frederick Schiller, Jill Gibbs, David Walbridge
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