The Captive Heart (1946)
1h 44m
Running Time
April 29, 1946Release Date
The Captive Heart (1946)
1h 44m
Running Time
April 29, 1946Release Date
Plot.
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 & Crew.
Michael Redgrave
Capt. Karel Hasek
Rachel Kempson
Celia Mitchell
Frederick Leister
Mr. Mowbray
Mervyn Johns
Pte. Evans
Rachel Thomas
Mrs. Evans
Jack Warner
Cpl. Horsfall
Gladys Henson
Mrs. Horsfall
James Harcourt
Doctor
Gordon Jackson
Lieut. Lennox
Margot Fitzsimons
Elspeth McDougall
Elliott Mason
Mrs. Lennox
David Keir
Mr. McDougall
Basil Dearden
Director
Derek Bond
Lt. Stephen Harley
Angus MacPhail
Writer
Jane Barrett
Caroline Harley
Guy Morgan
Writer
Meriel Forbes
Beryl Curtiss
Patrick Kirwan
Writer
Robert Wyndham
Lt. Cdr. Robert Marsden
Michael Balcon
Producer
Alan Rawsthorne
Composer
Basil Radford
Major Ossy Dalrymple
Guy Middleton
Capt. Jim Grayson
Douglas Slocombe
Cinematographer
Charles Hasse
Editor
Jimmy Hanley
Pte. Mathews
Ralph Michael
Capt. Thurston R.A.M.C.
Jack Lambert
Padre
Karl Stepanek
Forster
Friedrich Richter
Camp Commandant
Frederick Schiller
German Medical Officer
Jill Gibbs
Janet Mitchell
David Walbridge
Desmond Mitchell
Grace Arnold
Official (uncredited)
William Fox
Officer Interviewing Capt. Hasek (uncredited)
Susanne Gibbs
Girl (uncredited)
Sam Kydd
POW in Top Bunk (uncredited)
Arthur Mullard
(uncredited)
John Owers
Bit Part (uncredited)
Larry Taylor
Sergeant (uncredited)
Torin Thatcher
Repatriation Official (uncredited)
Cliff Richardson
Special Effects
Michael Relph
Art Direction / Associate Producer
Jimmy Sangster
Third Assistant Director
Seth Holt
Editorial Staff
Ernest Irving
Music / Conductor
Lionel Banes
Second Unit Director of Photography
Jim Morahan
Assistant Art Director
Tony Rimmington
Art Department Assistant
Jack Parker
Camera Operator
Len Page
Sound Recordist
Mark Luker
Costume Designer
Phyllis Crocker
Continuity
Heather Armitage
Draughtsman
Daphne Heathcote
First Assistant Editor
Billy Russell
First Assistant Director
Len Wills
Draughtsman
Gwen Bartle
Continuity
John Meadows
Third Assistant Director
Muriel Cole
Second Assistant Director
Media.
Details.
Wiki.
The Captive Heart is a 1946 British war drama, directed by Basil Dearden and starring Michael Redgrave. It is about a Czechoslovak Army officer who is captured in the Fall of France and spends five years as a prisoner of war, during which time he forms a long-distance relationship with the widow of a British Army officer. The film was entered into the 1946 Cannes Film Festival.The film is partly based on the true story of a Czechoslovak officer in the RAF Volunteer Reserve, Josef Bryks MBE, and his relationship with a British WAAF, Gertrude Dellar, who was the widow of an RAF pilot.
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