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The Captive Heart (1946)

ALL 04/29/1946 (en) Drama, War 104 Min
  • Release
    04/29/1946
  • Production
    Ealing Studios
  • Rotten tomato
    62%
  • Original title
    The Captive Heart
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Would you forge love letters to save your life?

Overview

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.

  1. Basil Dearden

    Director

  3. Charles Hasse

    Editor

  4. Michael Balcon

    Producer



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  1. Michael Redgrave

    Capt. Karel Hasek

  2. Rachel Kempson

    Celia Mitchell

  3. Frederick Leister

    Mr. Mowbray

  4. Mervyn Johns

    Pte. Evans

  5. Rachel Thomas

    Mrs. Evans

  6. Jack Warner

    Cpl. Ted Horsfall

  7. Gladys Henson

    Mrs. Horsfall

  8. James Harcourt

    Doctor

  9. Gordon Jackson

    Lt. David Lennox

  10. Elliott Mason

    Mrs. Lennox

  11. Margot Fitzsimons

    Elspeth McDougall

  12. David Keir

    Mr. McDougall

  13. Derek Bond

    Lt. Stephen Harley

  14. Jane Barrett

    Caroline Harley

  15. Meriel Forbes

    Beryl Curtiss

  16. Robert Wyndham

    Lt. Cdr. Robert Marsden

  17. Basil Radford

    Major Ossy Dalrymple

  18. Guy Middleton

    Capt. Jim Grayson

  19. Jimmy Hanley

    Pte. Mathews

  20. Ralph Michael

    Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.

  21. Jack Lambert

    Padre

  22. Karl Stepanek

    Forster

  23. Friedrich Richter

    Camp Commandant

  24. Frederick Schiller

    German Medical Officer

  25. Jill Gibbs

    Janet Mitchell

  26. David Walbridge

    Desmond Mitchell

  27. Grace Arnold

    Official (uncredited)

  28. William Fox

    Officer Interviewing Capt. Hasek (uncredited)

  29. Susanne Gibbs

    Girl (uncredited)

  30. Sam Kydd

    POW in Top Bunk (uncredited)

  31. Arthur Mullard

    (uncredited)

  32. John Owers

    Bit Part (uncredited)

  33. Larry Taylor

    Sergeant (uncredited)

  34. Torin Thatcher

    Repatriation Official (uncredited)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 34 , Crews : 29

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The Captive Heart (1946) 104 Min

ALL 04/29/1946 (en)
Drama, War
  • Release 04/29/1946
  • Production
    Ealing Studios
  • Original title The Captive Heart
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Would you forge love letters to save your life?

Overview

A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.

  1. Basil Dearden

    Director

  2. Patrick Kirwan

    Story

  3. Charles Hasse

    Editor

  4. Michael Balcon

    Producer



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