The Seventh Cross

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The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film about seven prisoners escaping a Nazi concentration camp, noted for its early and powerful depiction of anti-fascist resistance.

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The Seventh Cross canonical 3
The Seventh Cross (film) 1

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instanceOf American drama film
film
authorOfSourceWork Anna Seghers
basedOn The Seventh Cross
surface form: The Seventh Cross (novel)
castMember Agnes Moorehead
Felix Bressart
George Macready
Helene Thimig
Herbert Rudley
Hume Cronyn
Jessica Tandy
Signe Hasso
Spencer Tracy
characterIn story of seven prisoners escaping a Nazi concentration camp
cinematographyBy Karl Freund
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
director Fred Zinnemann
distributor Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
editedBy George White
filmFormat black-and-white
genre anti-fascist film
drama film
war film
hasTheme moral courage under dictatorship
solidarity against oppression
leadRole Spencer Tracy as George Heisler
mainSubject anti-fascist resistance
escape from Nazi concentration camp
musicBy Roy Webb
narrativeLocation Germany
narrator Ray Collins
notableFor early Hollywood depiction of Nazi concentration camps
portrayal of underground resistance to Nazism
originalLanguage English
partOf Hollywood films about World War II
portrays German anti-Nazi resistance
Nazi concentration camp system
producer Pandro S. Berman
productionCompany Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
publicationDate 1944
runtime about 112 minutes
screenwriter Helen Deutsch
setInPeriod Nazi era
title The Seventh Cross

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Hume Cronyn notableWork The Seventh Cross
Helen Deutsch notableWork The Seventh Cross
Sara Haden appearedIn The Seventh Cross
this entity surface form: The Seventh Cross (film)
Sam Zimbalist produced The Seventh Cross