Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

Escape to Athena / Sir Lew Grade presents a David Niven Jr., Jack Wiener production ; produced by David Niven Jr. and Jack Wiener ; screenplay by Edward Anhalt and Richard S. Lochte ; directed by George P. Cosmatos.

Publisher, Date:

[London] : ITV Studios Global Entertainment, [2014]

[Place of publication not identified] : Hen's Tooth Video, [2014]

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

digital optical

video file DVD video region 1

Summary:

A small band of Greek freedom fighters are pitted against a German battalion. In aprison camp, Allied POWs are forced to spend their days unearthing priceless Greek art treasures for the Nazis. Meanwhile, in a nearby brothel, resistance fighters led by Zeno conspire to rid their island of the German occupiers. Zeno and his men stage a daring daylight rescue of prisoners about to be executed in the village square.the clock, Zeno leads a peri

Target Audience Note:

Rating: PG.

Subjects:

Art thefts -- Greece -- Drama.

World War, 1939-1945 -- Greece -- Drama.

Monasteries -- Greece -- Drama.

War films.

Action and adventure films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Cosmatos, George P., film director.

Anhalt, Edward, 1914-2000, screenwriter.