Le trou
In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker’s Le trou (The Hole) balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger.
Special Features
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Excerpts from the 1964 U.S. pressbook
New cover by Eva Wah
Special Features
- New and improved English subtitle translation
- Excerpts from the 1964 U.S. pressbook
New cover by Eva Wah
Cast
- Michel Constantin
- Géo
- Jean Keraudy
- Roland
- Philippe Leroy
- Manu
- Raymond Meunier
- Monseigneur
- Mark Michel
- Gaspard
- J. Paul Coquelin
- Grinval, a guard
- André Bevril
- The warden
- Eddy Rasimi
- Bouboule, a guard
- Catherine Spaak
- Nicole
Credits
- Director
- Jacques Becker
- Screenplay
- Jacques Becker
- Screenplay
- José Giovanni
- Screenplay
- Jean Aurel
- From the novel by
- José Giovanni
- Cinematography
- Ghislain Cloquet
- Sets
- Rino Mondellini
- Editing
- Marguerite Renoir
- Editing
- Geneviève Vaury