Overview

A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores of food, but not enough candles. The slow dying of the light parallels their increasing boredom, illness, and jealousy during their entrapment. Based on the Novel 'Le Blockhaus' by Jean Paul Clebert

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Cast

Peter Sellers

Rouquet

Charles Aznavour

Visconti

Jeremy Kemp

Grabinski

Peter Vaughan

Aufret

Per Oscarsson

Lund

Nicholas Jones

Kromer

Leon Lissek

Kozhek

Alfred Lynch

Larshen