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14 February 1997 (USA) morePlot:
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Nominated for 2 BAFTA Film Awards. Another 2 wins & 1 nomination moreUser Comments:
The greatest film about prison life moreCast
(Credited cast) | Marc Michel | ... | Claude Gaspard (as Mark Michel) |
| Jean Keraudy | ... | Roland Darbant |
| Philippe Leroy | ... | Manu Borelli |
| Raymond Meunier | ... | Vossellin / Monseigneur |
| Michel Constantin | ... | Jo Cassine |
| André Bervil | ... | Le directeur |
| Jean-Paul Coquelin | ... | Lieutenant Grinval (as J. Paul Coquelin) |
| Eddy Rasimi | ... | Bouboule |
| rest of cast listed alphabetically: | |||
| Philippe Dumat | ||
| Gérard Hernandez | ||
| Jean Luisi | ||
| Paul Pavel | ||
| Catherine Spaak | ... | Nicole |
| Dominique Zardi | ... | Inmate |
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132 min | West Germany:121 min (1984 restored version)Language:
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1.66 : 1 moreSound Mix:
Mono (Western Electric Sound System)MOVIEmeter: 
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Le Trou played on TV the other night, and thus gives me a chance to evaluate it after 20 years or so. The direction is magnificent: Becker was a genius at refining the elements of the story down to a bare minimum. Space is used well; the close-ups of men banging on concrete with improvised tools in a cramped space are very effective, they look like burrowing animals. Ghislain Cloquet was a master of black-and-white camerawork; he shot Mouchette and Au hasard, Balthazar for Bresson, Nuit et brouillard for Resnais, Le Feu follet for Malle, all great films made greater by Cloquet's work.
The endless dull routine enlivened by subterfuge--stealing materials needed for digging and making puppets to stand in for sleeping prisoners is brilliantly captured. If the prisoners are bored, so are the staff--the warden is desperate for some conversation with Gaspard, or with anybody. Geo's problem is a little hard to understand, I thought he'd want to go through with the plan. Otherwise I rate it very highly indeed.