The Seventh Cross (1944)

Directed by

Fred Zinnemann

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 50m

Rated

NR

Rating

6.8 of 10 from 43 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A prisoner escapes from a Nazi concentration camp and tries to evade capture while moving through Germany. He meets ordinary people who either help or betray him, and this changes his outlook on human nature.

tensedarkly hopefulgrittyrestraineddeliberatesoberhumanistic

What happens

The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film, set in Nazi Germany, starring Spencer Tracy as a prisoner who escaped from a concentration camp. The story chronicles how he interacts with ordinary Germans and gradually sheds his cynical view of humanity. The film co-stars Hume Cronyn, who was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn appeared with his wife Jessica Tandy, and was among the first feature films directed by Fred Zinnemann; it was his first hit movie. The movie was adapted from the 1942 novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. Produced in the midst of World War II, The Seventh Cross was one of the few films made during the war to deal with the existence of Nazi concentration camps. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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