The Hole / Le Trou
Four inmates who are sentenced for a long term plan on escaping by digging a tunnel. However, soon distrust and uncertainty develops between them which creates many problems.
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Summary
The Hole (French: Le Trou) is a 1960 French crime film directed by Jacques Becker. It is an adaptation of José Giovanni’s 1957 book The Break. It was called The Night Watch when first released in the United States, but is released under its French title today. The film is based on a true event concerning five prison inmates in La Santé Prison in France in 1947. Becker, who died just weeks after shooting had wrapped, cast mostly non-actors for the main roles, including one man (Jean Keraudy) who was actually involved in the 1947 escape attempt, and who introduces the film. It was entered into the 1960 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot
Gaspard, a very polite prisoner, is moved to a cell (block 11, cell 6) designed for, and containing, four inmates due to repair works in his block. The cellmates keep busy making cardboard boxes.
Gaspard receives a food parcel from his mistress and has to watch while the guard chops up the sausages and prods the jams, searching for concealed tools.
The four existing cellmates expect long prison sentences, ranging from 10 years to possibly execution by guillotine, and have a pre-existing plan to escape. Gaspard himself is accused of the attempted murder of his wife, and faces a potential 20-year sentence.
Gaspard shares his food parcel with the four and gains their confidence sufficiently for them to reveal their escape plan: digging a hole through the floor to reach the underground passages. The bulk of the film then focuses upon their gradual progress, which results in two men reaching an outer manhole in the public street outside the prison walls. However, the two do not escape, and instead return to the cell to organize the timing of the group escape. Geo decides not to join.
But, just as they are ready to go, Gaspard gets called to a meeting with the governor, and is told that his wife has withdrawn the charges; and that he will be released soon. Returning to the cell, Gaspard has to dispel the suspicions of his cellmates, that he had turned them in. However, in the last moments before the four are about to leave through their tunnel, a group of guards appears outside and they realize that they have been betrayed. A fight ensues in the cell and the guards intervene.
As Gaspard is returned to his original cell, the original four have been stripped to their underwear (before going into solitary confinement). But Gaspard too has been cheated, as the governor has a reputation for swapping information for supposed release rumours. Whether or not his wife has dropped the charges the state still wishes to prosecute.
Also Known As
- (original title): Le trou
- Argentina: El boquete
- Australia: The Hole
- Belgium: De ontvluchting(Flemish, TV Title)
- Brazil: A Um Passo da Liberdade
- Canada: The Hole(English)
- Canada: Le trou(French)
- Denmark: Hullet
- Egypt: Alhofrah(Arabic)
- Estonia: Auk
- Finland: Tunneli
- Finland: Tunneln(Swedish)
- France: Le trou
- Greece: I trypa(alternative transliteration)
- Greece: To kelli tis prodosias(transliterated title)
- Greece: Η τρύπα(Alternative Title)
- Greece: Το κελί της προδοσίας
- Hungary: Az odú
- India: The Hole(English)
- Iran: Hofreh(Persian)
- Italy: Il buco
- Japan: Ana(alternative spelling)
- Japan: 穴(Japanese)
- Mexico: La evasión(DVD Title)
- Mexico: El hueco
- Mexico: Un paso a la libertad
- Netherlands: Le trou
- Netherlands: Het complot(informal title)
- Norway: Hullet
- Peru: El agujero
- Poland: Dziura
- Portugal: O Buraco
- South Korea: 구멍
- Soviet Union: Дыра(Russian)
- Spain: La evasión
- Spain: L’evasió(Catalan)
- Sweden: Hålet
- Taiwan: 洞
- Turkey: Delik(Turkish)
- Ukraine: Діра(new title)
- United Kingdom: Le Trou
- United States: The Hole
- United States: The Night Watch(Alternative Title)
- Vietnam: Vượt Ngục
- West Germany: Das Loch
- World-wide: The Hole(English, literal English title)
- Yugoslavia: Rupa(Serbian, literal title)
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