Simplify the following text for a Grade 12 native English-speaking person.
Original: In the early 1980s , he starred in a movie with the British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory ( 1981 ) , a sports drama where he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda fuÃ ball ( soccer ) tournament .
Simplified: In the early 1980s , he starred alongside British veteran Michael Caine in Escape to Victory ( 1981 ) , a sports drama in which he plays a prisoner of war involved in a Nazi propaganda soccer game .