| The Seventh Cross | |
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| Directed by | Fred Zinnemann |
| Screenplay by | Helen Deutsch |
| Based on | The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers |
| Produced by | Pandro S. Berman |
| Starring | |
| Cinematography | Karl Freund |
| Edited by | Thomas Richards |
| Music by | Roy Webb |
Production company | |
| Distributed by | Loew's Inc. |
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Running time | 110 minutes |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $1.3 million[1] |
| Box office | $3.6 million[1] |
The Seventh Cross is a 1944 American drama film, set in Nazi Germany, starring Spencer Tracy as a prisoner who escaped from a concentration camp. The story chronicles how he interacts with ordinary Germans and gradually sheds his cynical view of humanity.
The film co-starred Hume Cronyn, who was nominated for the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor. It was the first film in which Cronyn appeared with his wife Jessica Tandy, and was among the first feature films directed by Fred Zinnemann; it was his first hit movie.[2]
The movie was adapted from the 1942 novel of the same name by the German refugee writer Anna Seghers. Produced in the midst of the Second World War, it was one of the few films made during the war to deal with the existence of Nazi concentration camps.[3]
- ^ a b The Eddie Mannix Ledger, Los Angeles: Margaret Herrick Library, Center for Motion Picture Study
- ^ Sack, Harald. "Fred Zinnemann – From High Noon to The Day of the Jackal". SciHi Blog. Retrieved 3 June 2022.
- ^ "The Seventh Cross by Anna Seghers". littlebrown.co.uk. Little Brown Book Group UK. Retrieved March 19, 2018.