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Stalag 17
Stalag 17 is a 1953 American war film that recounts the story of a group of American airmen confined in a German prisoner-of-war camp. The film focuses on one particular barracks, where the men come to suspect that one of their number is an informant.
Plot
The film is set during World War II, in a German prisoner-of-war camp named Stalag 17, "somewhere on the Danube". One of its compounds holds 630 American airmen (all of whom are sergeants) and is overseen by camp warden Oberst von Scherbach.
Awards
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| author | Edwin Blum |
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| award | Academy Award for Best Actor National Board of Review: Top Ten Films |
| contentLocation | Germany |
| director | Billy Wilder |
| editor | George Tomasini |
| events | World War II |
| genre | comedy |
| keywords | air raid aircrew airman beat berlin betray brew camp life capture chessboard christmas eve create danube distillery feldwebel gag gamble geneva convention german spy improvised informant latrine light bulb listen loop march oberst ping-pong balls red cross red cross parcel rich family schutzstaffel sergeant smoke bomb speaking german stalag table tennis time bomb war crime water tower when johnny comes marching home |
| musicBy | Franz Waxman |
| nomination | Academy Award for Best Actor Academy Award for Best Director Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor |
| producer | Billy Wilder |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| theme | war |