This documentary, which I picked up at my local library, runs less than 1 hour in length and, except when German is spoken, has no subtitles ( but I was able to access them through my remote closed caption option).
A group of film historians, filmmakers, and devoted fans travel to Bavaria, Germany to trace some of the key locations for the shooting of the iconic WWll movie "The Great Escape", with its incredible star-studded cast. Amazingly, many of the buildings and signposts are still there to guide director Christophe Espenan and this group, as they're able to pinpoint sometimes in minute details the exact scene locations of the film. The actual movie footage is cleverly interspersed with today's landscape to give the viewer a real sense of what happened there.
Being a movie buff, I found this doc quite interesting and I would say its appeal will be for fellow movie buffs or those viewers who really liked this 1963 classic. There are many spoilers here as to what happened to many of the characters in their escape attempts from a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, so if you haven't seen this movie yet I would suggest you see the actual film first and then the documentary. I was inspired enough to seek out the original film and see it again.
I'm not sure what the 4.2 imdb rating is all about, but I would rate this doc quite higher especially for those that have great interest in the silver screen.
A group of film historians, filmmakers, and devoted fans travel to Bavaria, Germany to trace some of the key locations for the shooting of the iconic WWll movie "The Great Escape", with its incredible star-studded cast. Amazingly, many of the buildings and signposts are still there to guide director Christophe Espenan and this group, as they're able to pinpoint sometimes in minute details the exact scene locations of the film. The actual movie footage is cleverly interspersed with today's landscape to give the viewer a real sense of what happened there.
Being a movie buff, I found this doc quite interesting and I would say its appeal will be for fellow movie buffs or those viewers who really liked this 1963 classic. There are many spoilers here as to what happened to many of the characters in their escape attempts from a Nazi prisoner-of-war camp, so if you haven't seen this movie yet I would suggest you see the actual film first and then the documentary. I was inspired enough to seek out the original film and see it again.
I'm not sure what the 4.2 imdb rating is all about, but I would rate this doc quite higher especially for those that have great interest in the silver screen.