The Last Chance

The Last Chance (1945)

Die letzte Chance

Escaping a Nazi prison train in war-torn Italy, an American and a British soldier set out for the Swiss border and find themselves leading a multi-national party of refugees for the Italian underground.

Date of release
1945-05-26
TMDB
6.0 / 10 (23)
Runtime
1h 53m
Genres
Drama, War
Director
Leopold Lindtberg

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Awards: 2 · Nominations: 0. Including: National Board of Review: Top Ten Films; Golden Globe Award for Best Film Promoting International Understanding

The Last Chance is a 1945 Swiss war film directed by Leopold Lindtberg. It was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival and won the Grand Prize of the Festival. The film was selected for screening as part of the Cannes Classics section at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival.

Production

Produced in Switzerland in 1944, the two British leads had been prisoners of war who escaped from Italy into Switzerland with the one American lead being an Army Air Forces crewman whose plane landed in Switzerland and had been interned. All three were chosen for the film by the director.

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