I first saw this movie in 1944 or 1945 at the age of 11, and the images of Spencer Tracy (number seven), as well as the suicide of the aerialist number six were seared into my memory forever. My vivid memory gives it a 5-Star.
Viewer Reviews Seven men escaped from Westhofen, but just one of them George Heissler will surmount all the obstacles to find at last, to materialize this dream.
This movie tells us about the multiple difficulties that George will have to feat in order to survive. Struggling and absorbing episode based on real facts in Germany 1936, when dissent was already considered a serious evidence of sedition and betrayal against the totalitarian state.
Impeccable acting of Spencer Tracy and fine direction of Fred Zinnemman.
