The Blockhouse (1973)
R | 93 min | Drama, War | January 1974 (USA)
During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
Director: Clive Rees
Writers: Jean-Paul Clébert (novel), John Gould (created for the screen by)
Stars: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp
R | 93 min | Drama, War | January 1974 (USA)
During D-day several people become trapped while hiding in a bunker, when heavy shelling collapses it. They have plenty of food and water so they decide to wait for rescuers. And so they wait year, after year, after year.
Director: Clive Rees
Writers: Jean-Paul Clébert (novel), John Gould (created for the screen by)
Stars: Peter Sellers, Charles Aznavour, Jeremy Kemp
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00:00Well, do you know about these places, Skrebensky?
00:06Are there any possibilities to dig ourselves out?
00:09Please look!
00:10No, no, please.
00:11I'm sorry.
00:12I'm sorry.
00:13No, no, no, no.
00:14Just tell us.
00:15We are 30 meters underground.
00:18There's no air at all from the escape shaft.
00:22The main corridor, also not.
00:26The only air comes through two ventilation pipes,
00:30which face north towards the sea
00:34and run through seven meters of reinforced concrete.
00:39It would take us...
00:42No, it's impossible.
00:43We can do nothing.
00:44There must be some possibility.
00:47We...
00:50We must...
00:51We must try.
00:54Maybe we could light a fire and let the smoke flow as a signal.
00:58I think we just fill up the whole place with smoke.
01:00Well, but let's try.
01:03Look, look.
01:05Look.
01:07We've got food.
01:08We've got drink.
01:09We've got clothes.
01:10We're safe.
01:15How about water?
01:18There will be a little condensation from the waste.
01:21That's silly.
01:22That's silly.
01:24The washing will have to be done with wine.
01:32Kabrinsky.
01:34You know, I've been studying these candles.
01:37They last about five hours each.
01:41Since we have been in this room, we have burnt exactly 12.
01:47Kozhek, please remember the last room on the right.
01:54My pulse rate is normally 72 beats per minute.
01:59If you multiply that by 60, it would give you 4,320 beats per hour.
02:08Now, we have been down here about 24 hours before we came to this room.
02:13That makes three days, you know, exactly.
02:19Seems a pretty reliable way to give time.
02:23Providing we have candles.
02:25My heart doesn't stop.
02:30We could be here for quite some time.
02:34Oh, yes.
02:35But I have made a list.
02:39There are supplies down here sufficient to feed an entire army.
02:43Or certainly for us.
02:45Masses of things.