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The Seventh Cross (1944)

Drama | 112 minutes
3,50 27 votes

Genre: Drama

Duration: 112 minuten

Country: United States

Directed by: Fred Zinnemann

Stars: Spencer Tracy, Hume Cronyn and Jessica Tandy

IMDb score: 7,4 (3.313)

Releasedate: 24 July 1944

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The Seventh Cross plot

"His greatest role!"

In 1936 the political prisoner Georg Heisler fled with six comrades from the concentration camp Westhofen in Rheinhessen. To scare the other captives, the commander has seven crosses hammered to which the seven escapees will be nailed once they are captured again.

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Quido

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A very strong film that relies heavily on the question of who you can trust and who you cannot. The voice-over by one of the six who didn't survive ensures that you become emotionally involved with George Heisler. As a viewer, you just want him to survive, and you yourself no longer know who to trust and who not. It is a good thing I hadn't read the story here yet, because that would immediately give away the ending. Remarkably fast pace and nice atmospheric music. Sometimes slightly overacted, but I find that rather charming in this type of old film. Beautiful setting that really lets you feel the rising Nazi atmosphere.

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Movsin

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World War II was a rewarding subject for filmmakers, who were already producing films during the course of the war.

In 1944, Fred Zinnemann made this "The Seventh Cross" about pre-war Germany, based on a novel from 1942, arguing that resistance to the Hitler regime also existed in Germany and that there were already concentration camps at that time to imprison their own German resistance fighters. A not very common fact.

The film, which is actually not particularly convincing (too slow pace, unusual narrative style – it is not the surviving escapee narrating – hastily added weak romance), puts forward as its main premise that human decency will always prevail over evil.

Let us hope.

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clubsport

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I found it a very exciting story. The premise that, as a German in the Nazi regime of 1936 where this story takes place, you could trust no one is portrayed very well. Although no real German is spoken, the set decorations are so professional that you really feel like you are in the German city and never for a moment get the impression you are looking at a film set. Very cleverly done.

And once again you are also confronted with the fact that the Allies knew more about the concentration camps than they wanted to admit but did nothing about it; that leaves a certain bitter taste when you watch this film.

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