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Movies starring Hannes Messemer

Biography: Messemer, Hans
In The Great Escape (1963) Messemer plays the kommendant of the POW camp, in real life he was himself a POW in Russia.

Il generale della Rovere (1959)

Sunday, June 13th, 2010 02:06
Il generale della RovereGenres: Drama | War
Countries: France | Italy
Directors: Roberto Rossellini
Actors: Vittorio De Sica | Hannes Messemer | Vittorio Caprioli | Nando Angelini | Herbert Fischer | Mary Greco | Bernardo Menicacci | Lucia Modugno | Luciano Pigozzi | Kurt Polter | Giuseppe Rosetti | Kurt Selge | Linda Veras | Sandra Milo
Genoa, 1943. Grimaldi is a swindler, pretending to be a colonel in the Italian army to get money from the family of people put into jail by the Nazis. Once caught, the Gestapo makes a deal with him : he will stay alive if he impersonates the General Della Rovere, a leader of the Resistance who has just been shot by the Nazis, to be put into a political jail where he is supposed to identify another Resistance leader.

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The Great Escape (1963)

Wednesday, April 16th, 2008 07:04
Great Escape, TheGenres: Action | Adventure | Drama | Thriller | War
Countries: USA
Directors: John Sturges
Actors: Steve McQueen | James Garner | Richard Attenborough | James Donald | Charles Bronson | Donald Pleasence | James Coburn | Hannes Messemer | David McCallum | Gordon Jackson | John Leyton | Angus Lennie | Nigel Stock | Robert Graf | Jud Taylor
Based on a true story, "The Great Escape" deals with the largest Allied escape attempt from a German POW camp during the Second World War. The first part of the film focuses on the escape efforts within the camp and the process of secretly digging an escape tunnel. The second half of the film deals with the massive effort by the German Gestapo to track down the over 70 escaped prisoners who are at this point throughout the Third Reich attempting to make their way to England and various neutral countries.
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