The Captive Heart

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The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama film about a Czech officer who assumes the identity of a dead British officer while held in a German prisoner-of-war camp during World War II.

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instanceOf film
basedOn original screenplay
cinematography Otto Heller
countryOfOrigin England
United Kingdom
countryOfRelease United Kingdom
director Basil Dearden
distributor Ealing Studios
editor Charles Hasse
filmFormat black-and-white film
follows Czech officer who assumes the identity of a dead British officer
genre prisoner-of-war film
war drama film
hasSetting Nazi Germany
hasSubject British prisoners of war
Czechoslovak military officers
hasTheme deception
identity
loyalty
survival
wartime captivity
mainCharacter British officer Captain Geoffrey Mitchell
Czech officer Karel Hasek
musicBy Alan Rawsthorne
narrativeLocation German prisoner-of-war camp
originalLanguage English
partOf Ealing Studios war films
plotSummary A Czech officer in a German POW camp assumes the identity of a dead British officer to avoid the Gestapo
producer Michael Balcon
linked to: Sir Michael Balcon
productionCompany Ealing Studios
publicationDate 1946
releaseDate 1946-09-02
runtime approximately 105 minutes
screenwriter Angus MacPhail
Guy Morgan
setInPeriod World War II
starring Basil Radford
Gordon Jackson
Guy Middleton
Jack Warner
Jimmy Hanley
Mervyn Johns
Michael Redgrave
Rachel Kempson
timePeriodDepicted early 1940s

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Michael Balcon notableWork The Captive Heart
subject linked to: Sir Michael Balcon
Rachel Kempson notableWork The Captive Heart
Edward Chapman notableWork The Captive Heart
Michael Redgrave notableWork The Captive Heart
Daniel M. Angel notableWork The Captive Heart