Based on the true story of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, the only German prisoner of war captured in Britain to escape back to Germany during the Second World War.

• Julian Wintle Productions
• The Rank Organisation
• Hardy Krüger
• Colin Gordon
• Michael Goodliffe
• Terence Alexander
• Jack Gwillim
• Andrew Faulds
• Julian Somers
• Alec McCowen