Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #17558 in DVD
• Released on: 2006-06-05
• Rating: Parental Guidance
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: PAL, Widescreen
• Number of discs: 1
• Running time: 111 minutes

DVD Description
This is no ordinary football match. This is war! The battlefield: a stadium in occupied Paris. The armies: German all-stars vs. ragtag Allied POWs. The objective: demonstrate another ‘proof’ of Aryan superiority. Guess who wins? Better yet, guess who cleverly uses the match as a means of escape? Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine and Max Von Sydow star in this rouser directed by the legendary John Huston. The climactic match is a heart-in-the-throat, hat-in-the-air exhibition of brute force and balletic grace featuring soccer legends Pele, Bobby Moore, Osvaldo Ardiles, Co Prins, Mike Summerbee and more. Score a splendid entertainment goal for Escape To Victory!

Synopsis
A number of Allied prisoners of war are manipulated into playing in a propaganda soccer match against the German National team in Paris. From there they plan their escape.

Customer Reviews

We Can Win It!
the ultimate feel good movie. Good triumphs over evil and there is football thrown in! Magnificent! Watch for the acting of Mike Summerbee-priceless!
brillant brillant film!

escape to victory
ISaw this film many years ago and i still love it to this day.what with movie stars and pro footballs. the story is good and look out for the likes of pele.well worth a look.

cinema imitates life
I thought this movie vigorous and attractive but a little exaggerated. But this is the case just now has been rediscovered a real documental film of a football match between national teams of (....) Germany and Spain disputed in Köln in 1935 with the final result Germany 1, Spain 2. As Spanish Civil War began in 1936, this film was forbidden long time, as Franco became an allied of Hitler and the Fuhrer was infuriated by the result. Images are recently disposable in Spanish TV, but scenes of Spanish goals were destroyed by the (....).