It focuses around him and the other American
POWs in a prison camp and his plans to escape.
Not exact matches
Thompson was a prisoner of war (
POW)
in the Paris
Prison, Buchenwald Concentration
Camp, Stalag Luft 3
camp and Nuremburg
camp before being liberated at the Mooseburg
camp by General George S. Patton's 3rd Army on May 15, 1945.
O'Connell stars as «the young Zamperini from the time he was a wunderkind member of the USA track team that competed
in the 1936 Berlin Olympics to his survival of a harrowing plane crash
in the Pacific Ocean during WWII through 47 days adrift
in a life raft to becoming a
POW in a Japanese
prison camp.»
The story moves back and forth between the protagonist's present and his past as a
POW in a Japanese WWII
prison camp.