Set in the World War II, a group of Nazi officers come up with a propaganda event in which an all star Nazi team will play a team composed of Allied Prisoners of War in a Soccer game. The Prisoners agree, planning on using the game as a means of escape from the camp.
2 August 1935, Rabat, French Protectorate in Morocco [now Morocco]
2 February 1957, Denmark
23 October 1947, Starogard Gdanski, Pomorskie, Poland
23 October 1940, Três Corações, Minas Gerais, Brazil
19 March 1937, Sunderland, Tyne-and-Wear, England, UK
12 April 1941, Barking, Essex, England, UK
3 July 1943, Paddington, London, England, UK
14 November 1926, Tlemcen, Oran, France [now Algeria]
1 January 1934, Germany
13 May 1946, Rugby, Warwickshire, England, UK
4 April 1948, Yugoslavia
29 September 1955
20 October 1918, Koblenz, Germany
8 February 1951, Lowestoft, Suffolk, England, UK
6 July 1946, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1944, Lons-le-Saunier, Jura, France
8 December 1937, Devon, England, UK
10 April 1929, Lund, Skåne län, Sweden
3 August 1952, Córdoba, Argentina
5 August 1948, Shawinigan, Quebec, Canada
10 October 1933, London, England, UK
15 April 1930, Tawroggen, Lithuania
5 June 1938, Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Netherlands
15 September 1945, Tenby, Pembrokeshire, Wales, UK
August 13, 2010
A frankly oldfashioned World War II morality play, hinging on soccer as a civilized metaphor for the game of War.August 13, 2010
Huston, showing admirable range in his old age, creates enough on-field magic and nostalgia for the beatiful game as an idyll of now-extinct sportsmanship.August 13, 2010
Unsatisfactory both for fans of star-studded prison escape dramas and for football fans hoping to see cunningly devised tactics from Pele and his squad of internationals.August 13, 2010
A cracking good story and some of the best football action committed to celluloid have made this a Bank Holiday classic.August 13, 2010
The form of the film is conventional, but the manner in which it has been executed is not.August 13, 2010
Alternately hokey and inspiring.