Hannibal Brooks
1969 film by Michael Winner / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Hannibal Brooks is a 1969 British war comedy film directed by Michael Winner and written by Ian La Frenais and Dick Clement, based on a story by Winner and Tom Wright.[4] It stars Oliver Reed, Michael J. Pollard and Wolfgang Preiss.
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Directed by | Michael Winner |
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Produced by | Michael Winner |
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Cinematography | Robert Paynter |
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Music by | Francis Lai |
Distributed by | United Artists |
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Running time | 102 minutes |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Budget | £1 million[2] or less than $3 million[3] |
The film follows a prisoner of war's attempt to escape from Nazi Germany to Switzerland during the Second World War, accompanied by a female Asian elephant. The idea for the film was inspired by Tom Wright's diary from the war, when he was captured and spent nine months as a prisoner taking care of Asian elephants at the Munich zoo.[5] However, the escape and all following events of the film are fictional. The title alludes to the Carthaginian military commander Hannibal who led an army with war elephants over the Alps.