The Captive Heart
The Captive Heart
Overview
A series of stories about the lives and loves of nine men in a Prisoner of War Camp over five years. Location shooting in the British occupied part of Germany adds believability. The main story is of Hasek (Redgrave) a Czech soldier who needs to keep his identity a secret from the Nazis, to do this he poses as a dead English Officer and corresponds with the man's wife. Upon liberation they meet and decide to continue their lives together. The other inmates' stories are revealed episodically.
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Cast
Michael Redgrave
Rachel Kempson
Frederick Leister
Mervyn Johns
Rachel Thomas
Jack Warner
Gladys Henson
James Harcourt
Gordon Jackson
Elliott Mason
Margot Fitzsimons
David Keir
Derek Bond
Jane Barrett
Meriel Forbes
Robert Wyndham
Basil Radford
Guy Middleton
Jimmy Hanley
Ralph Michael
Jack Lambert
Karl Stepanek
Friedrich Richter
Frederick Schiller
Jill Gibbs
David Walbridge
Grace Arnold
William Fox
Susanne Gibbs
Sam Kydd
Arthur Mullard
John Owers
Larry Taylor
Torin Thatcher
Crew
Basil Dearden
Michael Balcon
Charles Hasse
Patrick Kirwan
Angus MacPhail
Guy Morgan
Douglas Slocombe
Michael Relph
Len Page
Jack Parker
Cliff Richardson
Michael Relph
Muriel Cole
John Meadows
Billy Russell
Jimmy Sangster
Jim Morahan
Heather Armitage
Tony Rimmington
Len Wills
Lionel Banes
Mark Luker
Daphne Heathcote
