Last night, I just watched "The One That Got Away," the 1957 UK-made movie about the only German prisoner of war to escape from Allies during WW2. Hardy Kruger plays the Luftwaffe pilot Franz von Werra who was shot-down over England, and after several escapes, manages to escape from custody in Canada and make it to then-neutral USA.
Its a pretty good film, no one is seen caricatured as evil or scarred or a skinhead or sinister (as opposed to the silliness in so many movies including SPR), other than von Werra is portrayed as a rather vain and single-minded person, apparently like the real guy!
Interestingly, Hardy Kruger (who also played Heinz Harmel in a "Bridge too Far") was drafted into the 38th SS Nibelungen Division, and surrendered to US troops in 1945.
Its a pretty good film, no one is seen caricatured as evil or scarred or a skinhead or sinister (as opposed to the silliness in so many movies including SPR), other than von Werra is portrayed as a rather vain and single-minded person, apparently like the real guy!
Interestingly, Hardy Kruger (who also played Heinz Harmel in a "Bridge too Far") was drafted into the 38th SS Nibelungen Division, and surrendered to US troops in 1945.
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