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When was escape to victory?

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When was escape to victory?

July 30, 1981 (USA)
Victory/Release date

Did Escape to Victory really happen?

Escape to Victory has a true story around which to base its tactics: a group of POW’s in Germany were challenged to a football match by their captors and the deal was: lose and be set free in Switzerland or win and face the firing squad. Not much of a choice, but the POW’s won and were promptly shot.

Is Escape to Victory now called victory?

Forty years ago the worlds of film and football collided, as superstars including Sylvester Stallone and Michael Caine joined forces with some of the world’s best players to tell the story of how a group of prisoners of war took on their Nazi captors.

Who wrote Escape to Victory?

Yabo Yablonsky
Djordje MilicevicJeff MaguireEvan Jones
Victory/Screenplay

Why was escape to victory changed to victory?

The original draft of the script was a serious drama, based on the true story of a group of allied P.O.W.s challenged to a football match by the Germans. However, if the P.O.W.s won, they would be shot. The P.O.W.s decided to go for “victory”, won the match and were consequently executed.

Who was in the escape to victory team?

THE TEAMS

  • Robert Hatch (USA) (SYLVESTER STALONE)
  • Michael Fileu (Bel) (PAUL VAN HIMST)
  • Cptn John COLBY (UK) (MICHAEL CAINE)
  • Pieter Van Beck (Hol) (CO PRINS)
  • Doug Clure(UK) – (RUSSELL OSMAN)
  • Terry Brady (UK) (BOBBY MOORE)
  • Arthur Hayes(Sco) (JOHN WARK)
  • Carlos Rey (Arg) (OSSIE ARDILES)

Was victory a true story?

The original draft of the script was a serious drama, based on the true story of a group of allied P.O.W.s challenged to a football match by the Germans. The P.O.W.s decided to go for “victory”, won the match and were consequently executed.

Is the great escape a true story?

It was a dog-eared, paperback copy of Paul Brickhill’s The Great Escape — the epic true story of the mass breakout by allied airmen from Stalag Luft III, a German prisoner of war camp in World War II. It was a shattering end to the ultimate boy’s own tale.

Why is escape to victory now called victory?

Where was the movie Victory filmed?

Overall, it was considered that Paris was too modern to film there. Since World War II, Budapest had emphasized reconstruction rather than modernizing. The MTK Stadium in Budapest compared closely to the Colombe Stadium in Paris.

What football ground was used in Escape to Victory?

In the movie, the match was supposedly played in Paris at the Colombes Stadium, which hosted the 1938 World Cup Final. But the filmmakers needed a place without floodlights, so they chose the Hidegkuti Nándor Stadium in Budapest, which was demolished in 2015, for filming. Game scene from the film.