Le Trou

Year: 1960

Runtime: 132 mins

Language: French

Director: Jacques Becker

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Poor Gaspard finds himself transferred into a cell where three inmates have been secretly plotting a tunnel escape. They enlist him in their risky scheme, and over three days they use a bed‑post to break through the concrete floor and slip into the sewer system, though their freedom remains far from guaranteed.

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