Five Graves to Cairo
Billy Wilder / US, 1943 / 96 min.
A wartime espionage thriller with an ingenious plot involving a British soldier who is left stranded in North Africa. To extricate himself, he assumes the identity of a waiter in the hotel – a ploy that proves to be even more dangerous than he had imagined. With Erich von Stroheim as Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
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Director
Billy Wilder
Production year
1943
Country
US
Original title
Five Graves to Cairo
Length
96 min.
Language
English
Subtitles
NLD
Format
35mm
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Sweet & Sour: The Films of Billy Wilder
The legendary screenwriter and Hollywood director Billy Wilder was a brilliant word artist. His Oscar-winning classics are brimming with irresistible and cynical humour: incredibly funny, bold and incisive.
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