Escape Across the Danube (Film)

Escape Across the Danube (Serbo-Croatian: Dunav Bekstvo, Дунав Бекство literately Danube Escape) is a 1970 war film starring Alec Guinness.

Plot
The story is set entirely in the the fictional prison camp of Šumadija 10 where American and Commonwealth airmen live alongside Yugoslavian partisans. The entire camp is surrounded by a Chetnik detachment making escape difficult and the only way to escape safely is across the River Danube. The plot follows mainly Stone who is an RAF commander more than determinate to escape, Stanimir a cool headed Croatian Serb partisan officer, Ioannidis an ex-Greek army officer and Stanimir's superior in the partisan army, Dydodwg a Welsh escape artist and Novak a Croatian-Mexican USAAF pilot with similar but more radical goals than Stone. Among the prisoners there's also Major Webber of the USAAF who is a staunch anti-communist with a secret hatred of Slavs and Cvita who becomes Dydowg's girlfriend. Their goal is to dig a tunnel near a bridge and to cross it.

Cast

 * Alec Guinness as Group Captain Stone
 * Anton Diffring as Commadant Dietrich
 * Bata Živojinović as Stanimir
 * Al Pacino as Captain Boris Novak
 * Hardy Krüger as Deputy Commandant Becker
 * Boris Dvornik as Marijo
 * Richard Harris as Flight Leftenant Dyfodwg
 * James Donald as Wing Commander Richards
 * Alekos Alexandrakis as Major Ioannidis
 * Sylva Koscina as Cvita
 * Adam West as Major Webber
 * Lawrence Montaigne as Captain O'Grady
 * Angus Lennie as Flight Leftenant Campbell
 * Pavle Vujisic as Colonel Vidić
 * Vasa Pantelic as Senator
 * Petar Banicevic as Commandant Babić