The Prisoner

The Prisoner

1955 · 95 min · EN · 7.2 (19 votes)
Dir. Peter Glenville · Starring Alec Guinness, Jack Hawkins, Wilfrid Lawson, Kenneth Griffith, Jeanette Sterke, Ronald Lewis
Drama

A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.

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A chilling, claustrophobic battle of wills unfolds in stark black and white. This is a masterclass in psychological tension, where faith and ideology clash in a suffocating interrogation room. A deeply unsettling, existential experience.

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