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THE GREAT ESCAPER

By Oliver PARKER

PATHÉ FILMS - as SALES All rights, World

Drama - Pre-Production 2021

- Year of production
- 2021
- Genres
- Drama
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM
- Languages
- ENGLISH
- Director(s)
- Oliver PARKER
- Writer(s)
- William IVORY
- Cast
- Sir Michael CAINE, Glenda JACKSON
- Producer(s)
- Robert BERNSTEIN, Douglas RAE
- Synopsis
- In the summer of 2014 - the 70th Anniversary of the D-Day Landings - octogenarian Bernie Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He’d staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades. It was a story that captured the imagination of the world - Bernie seemed to embody the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was the story we all tell ourselves to make war and old age bearable. The bitter-sweet script explores the reality with wit and a very big heart.
  Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Irene (Glenda Jackson) - the story celebrates their love without sentimentality and with an eye to the lessons we can all learn from the Greatest Generation.