خلاصه داستان : « سروان کارل هاشک » ( ردگریو ) ، اهل چکسلواکى و تحصیل کرده در انگلستان ، خود را با نام و نشان یک افسر مرده‏ ى انگلیسى معرفى مى‏کند تا از چنگ مأموران گشتاپو بگریزد . او ابتدا در کارش موفق است ، اما خیلى زود دستگیر و به اردوگاه اسراى انگلیسى منتقل مى‏شود...

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.

خلاصه داستان : وقتی نیرو های آلمانی وارد شهر پراگ می شوند، "دکتر بوماچ" (هارکورد) به انگلستان فرار می کند. دختر او "آنا" (لاکوود) موفق به فرار می شود تا بتواند به پدرش بپیوندد اما ...

Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.