The Blockhouse (1973)
A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defenses in 1944 are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge dtores 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
Director: Clive Rees
Actors: Alfred Lynch, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp, Leon Lissek, Nicholas Jones, Per Oscarsson, Peter Sellers, Peter Vaughan