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.
2 August 1935, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
2 February 1957, Denmark
23 October 1947, Starogard Gdanski, Pomorskie, Poland
23 October 1940, Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19 March 1937, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
12 April 1941, Barking, Essex, England, UK
3 July 1943, Paddington, London, England, UK
14 November 1926, Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
1 January 1934, Germany
13 May 1946, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
4 April 1948, Yugoslavia
29 September 1955
20 October 1918, Koblenz, Germany
8 February 1951, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1944, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
8 December 1937, Devon, England, UK
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
3 August 1952, Córdoba, Argentina
5 August 1948, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
10 October 1933, London, England, UK
15 April 1930, Tawroggen, Lithuania
5 June 1938, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
15 September 1945, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
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
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.
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.
