The Hole
Synopsis
In 1947, in La Santé Prison in Paris, the inmate Claude Gaspard is transferred to the cell of Geo Cassine, Roland Darbant, Manu Borelli and Vossellin a.k.a. Monseigneur. Gaspard befriends the four cell-mates that sooner disclose to him that they have long sentences and they have plotted an escape plan from the prison. Gaspard joins the quartet, digging a tunnel through the sewage system. One the day that they are ready to go, Gaspard is called to the warden's office and learns that his wife has dropped her accusation against him. He stays for two hours with the warden and when he returns to the cell, his mates have serious suspicions about what he had talked to the warden.
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Director (1)
Actors (19)
Production and distribution (5)
- Executive Producer : Play Art
- Foreign production company : Titanus Produzione
- Associate producer : Filmsonor Marceau
- Film exports/foreign sales : STUDIOCANAL
- French distribution : Cinédis
Full credits (17)
- Adaptation : José Giovanni, Jean Aurel, Jacques Becker
- Dialogue Writers : José Giovanni, Jacques Becker
- Director of Photography : Ghislain Cloquet
- Music Composer : Philippe Arthuys
- Assistant Director : Jean Becker
- Editor : Marguerite Houllé-Renoir
- Sound Recordist : Pierre Calvet
- Author of original work : José Giovanni
- Producer : Serge Silberman
- Sound Assistant : Maurice Dagonneau
- Assistant Operators : Jean-César Chiabaut, François Lauliac
- Camera Operator : Gilbert Chain
- Production Manager : Georges Charlot
- Assistant Editor : Geneviève Vaury
- Production Designer : Rino Mondellini
- Still Photographer : Henri Thibault
- Location Manager : Paul Laffargue
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- Type : Feature film
- Genres : Fiction
- Sub-genre : Drama
- Themes : Freedom, Justice
- Production language : French
- Coproducer countries : Italy, France
- Original French-language productions : Yes
- Nationality : Majority French (Italy, France)
- Production year : 1960
- French release : 21/03/1960
- Runtime : 2 h 12 min
- Current status : Released
- Visa number : 21353
- Visa issue date : 15/03/1960
- Approval : Yes
- Production formats : 35mm
- Color type : Black & White
- Aspect ratio : 1.66
- Audio format : Mono
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About
Le Trou is a 1960 French film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni's 1957 book of the same name. It was called "The Night Watc"h when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today. The film tells the true story of five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947, where the men dig, tunnel, and saw in an attempt to escape.
Director Becker, who died just weeks after shooting on the film had wrapped, used mostly non-actors for the main roles in the film, including one man (Jean Keraudy) who was actually involved in the 1947 escape attempt, and who introduces the film.[1] It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
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