Defining freedom, generating tention and reflectiveness.

Rating: 10/10 (8 August 2000)

This non-typical (anti-) war movie takes his power more by the director Sturges than by the famous actors. He puts his people in such good positions and gives a lection in camera- and light- guidance: night and day.
In practice, the air-force captives were brought to a camp at the Taunus mountains, so the distance for biker McQueen must have been far longer.
You cannot avoid being bound to the captives and psychological pressure against freedom, you feel narrowed, too. So the movie does not let you free, thereby it is genius.