Review of The Captive Heart (1946) by Anne F — 06 Jun 2009

A Czech escapee form a concentration camp assumes the identity of a dead British officer, but is then recaptured by the Germans and taken to a prison camp. The British soldiers there become very suspicious and believe that the is a Nazi...

This is a lovely British war story, told in a different way most POW films - the prisoners were bored, they weren't always nice to each other, the Germans weren't shown as especially evil and there weren't any Americans winning the war. The use of flashbacks to tell us more about the characters and their families was interesting.

I wonder whether the letters the prisoners received and wrote were Red Cross letters? If they were then that is a bit of an error on the part of the film makers, as each letter would have been limited to just 25 words. Seems a strange error to make in 1946, but I would be surprised if there was any other form of communication between German prison camps and Britain.