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- BFI identifier54633
- Date1979 (Copyright)
1980-06-19 (Release) - Production countryUnited Kingdom
- Production company
- SynopsisSet on a German-occupied Greek island during World War II. An English professor and two Americans are prisoners of war working on an archaelogical excavation under the supervision of commandant Major Hecht. When two German officers are killed after a visit to the town brothel, SS Major Volkman suspects the place to be a Resistance base. (Synopsis)
- Work historyLocation note: Filmed entirely on location on the island of Rhodes. [Onscreen wording.]
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- Subject
- CreditsA Film by/Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
©: ITC Entertainment Ltd.
a David Niven Jr, Jack Wiener production: David Niven Jr
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Title
Escape to Athena (Original)
Saints and Sinners (Alternative)
EIDR identifier
10.5240/654C-221E-252C-1FCB-3096-ICategory
FictionThis work is included in the BFI Filmography.
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- Film / Video
VHS cassette - Video - Viewing
view all - Scripts / DocumentsScript - Script type: Combined continuity - SCR-7502
Script - Script type: Revised shooting script by Edward Anhalt - SCR-7503
Script - Script type: Domestic version export script - SCR-7504
Ephemera: publicity - PBM-54633
Unfilmable medium pressbook held.
view all - StillsPhotograph: transparency - Landscape - Colour - bfi-00o-38c
Photograph: transparency - SPD-263011
Photograph: transparency - SPD-263012
Photograph: transparency - SPD-263013
Photograph: transparency - SPD-263014
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Work - 54633 - 1979 (Copyright)
United Kingdom - Film - Fiction
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