A group of Slave workers, drafted by the Nazis to help construct their coastal defences in 1944, are trapped in an underground bunker when the Allies land at Normandy on D-Day. They find huge stores 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


A true story of perseverance and survival.
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Peter Sellers
Rouquet

Charles Aznavour
Visconti

Jeremy Kemp
Grabinski

Peter Vaughan
Aufret

Per Oscarsson
Lund

Nicholas Jones
Kromer

Leon Lissek
Kozhek

Alfred Lynch
Larshen