Stalag 17
(1953)
★ 7.7 IMDb · 684 votes
Year: 1953
Runtime: 120 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Билли Уайлдер
Cast: Уильям Холден, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Питер Грейвс, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman, Michael Moore
Plot
After two American prisoners are killed by guards in the act of escaping from a German POW camp in World War II, barracks black marketeer J.J. Sefton is suspected of being an informer.
It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17. In Barracks 4 there's a security leak - the Germans always seem to be forewarned about escapes; and in the most recent attempt the two men, Manfredi and Johnson, walked straight into a trap and were killed. For the men of Barracks 4, the snitch looks obvious: J.J. Sefton, a much-despised wheeler-dealer who doesn't hesitate to trade with the guards and who has acquired goods and privileges that other prisoners can only dream about. Sefton makes it clear that he plans to ride out the war in what little comfort he can arrange, but denies giving the Germans any information. As tensions mount and mob mentality takes root, it becomes obvious Sefton will have to find the real German agent in their midst.