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Stalag 17 4K 1953 Ultra HD 2160p

Stalag 17 4K 1953 Ultra HD 2160p
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Genre: Drama 4K , Comedy 4K
Country: USA
Time: 02:00:30
IMDB: 8.0
Director: Billy Wilder
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Actors: William Holden, Don Taylor, Otto Preminger, Robert Strauss, Harvey Lembeck, Richard Erdman, Peter Graves, Neville Brand, Sig Ruman, Michael Moore, Peter Baldwin, Robinson Stone, Robert Shawley, William Pierson, Gil Stratton, Jay Lawrence, Erwin Kalser, Edmund Trzcinski.

Story Movie

"Stalag 17" (1953) is a World War II war film directed by Billy Wilder. Set in a German prisoner-of-war camp, the story centers around suspicions of a spy among American airmen. The focus is on Sefton (William Holden) and Dunbar (Don Taylor). As suspicions arise, Sefton is accused, leading to a suspenseful search for the real traitor. The film combines drama and humor, depicting daily life, struggles, and resilience of the prisoners. Holden's performance earned him an Academy Award. "Stalag 17" remains a compelling war film, exploring trust and betrayal in captivity.

Review 4K Movie

Despite the fact that this movie got made 10 years before the WW II POW classic "The Great Escape", the movie is still known as the 'other' WW II POW movie. While I do admit that "The Great Escpae" is still a better movie than this one ("The Great Escape" is probably one of my favorite all time movies) this movie is a great and classic one as well.

Just like "The Great Escape", the movie knows to create a perfect balance between its drama and comedy. This movie could easily been turned into a heavy war drama but instead a more light approach gets picked, without loosing any of its serious and more dramatic power. It makes the movie entertaining as well as effectively powerful. It can be assumed that "The Great Escape" and its style got inspired by this movie.

The movie is a 'great' portrayal of the lives of American officer POW's, in a German stalag. They try to make the best of it, with very limited resources. Every small thing and things that are out of the ordinary are the things that make them go through their days and is what's keeping them alive. The first halve of the movie isn't even about the William Holden character and he is just one of the boys. It isn't after about halve way through the movie that the story takes to take shape and the main plot of the movie becomes obvious. In advance you would just expect from this movie to be one about POW's trying to escape. But the story is way better written and layered than that though.

But it above all things is also a very well made and especially directed one, by 6 time Academy Award winner Billy Wilder. He also received a directing nomination for this movie. It's a '50's movie but it doesn't feel like one. The movie seems to be ahead of its time with its story handling, directing and just overall style of film-making. The camera-work is especially great and worth mentioning.

William Holden does a great job at portraying a complicated character. At first you just don't know what to think of him and he isn't a very likable character but he slowly turns into a strong and more important character, that starts doing the right thing. Holden also actually won an Oscar for his role in this movie, despite the fact that he never really wanted to do this movie. It was the only Oscar he ever got, which makes it quite ironic.

A great powerful, entertaining classic, which was truly ahead of its time.

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Video

Codec: HEVC / H.265 (92.2 Mb/s)
Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
Aspect ratio: 1.37:1
Original aspect ratio: 1.37:1

Audio

#English: FLAC 2.0
#English: FLAC 2.0 (Commentary by Richard Erdman, Gil Stratton and Donald Brevan)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by Steve Mitchell and Steven Jay Rubin)
#English: Dolby Digital 2.0 (Commentary by Film Historian Joseph McBride, Billy Wilder)

Subtitles

English SDH, French (Canadian), Spanish (Latin American), German

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