THE GREAT ESCAPER Movie (2023) Trailer - Plot Synopsis: In the summer of 2014, Bernard Jordan (Michael Caine) made global headlines. He had staged a “great escape” from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades at the D-Day Landings 70th anniversary.
It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man’s need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war.
Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene (Glenda Jackson) – THE GREAT ESCAPER celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.
It was a story that captured the imagination of the world as Bernie embodied the defiant, “can-do” spirit of a generation that was fast disappearing. But of course, it wasn’t the whole story. It was an inspirational but sanitised retelling of one man’s need to come to terms with the lasting trauma of war.
Bernie’s adventure, spanning a mere 48 hours, also marked the culmination of his 60-year marriage to Rene (Glenda Jackson) – THE GREAT ESCAPER celebrates their enduring love but always with an eye to the lessons we might learn from the Greatest Generation.
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00:00 He's in France!
00:01 Bonjour!
00:02 At 90!
00:03 Right, soon as we've had some grub,
00:09 I'll take you for a spin along the front.
00:11 And when we get back,
00:12 I think they've got a male stripper for you.
00:16 What?!
00:17 I made that last bit up.
00:19 I want to go to France.
00:22 What are you on about?
00:25 The trip to the beaches.
00:26 DJ.
00:28 Really sorry, Bernie.
00:30 You left it too late.
00:31 I couldn't leave you all on your own.
00:35 Unless...
00:36 you have to.
00:39 Where is he?
00:42 He's disappeared off the face of the earth.
00:44 He's in France!
00:46 Bonjour!
00:47 At 90!
00:48 Well, he has done it before.
00:50 Only then, of course, they were shooting at him.
00:53 So determined to honour his fallen comrade,
00:56 the D-Day veteran made a break for the coast.
00:59 And mounted what has now been dubbed
01:01 the Great Escape.
01:03 Who are these people?
01:05 They're Germans.
01:06 Oh.
01:07 This was your beach?
01:08 Yeah.
01:10 Me too.
01:27 At your age, Adele,
01:29 you cling to every second.
01:32 And every second is worth clinging to.
01:35 I'm sorry, really.
01:37 I've been in the papers.
01:39 I've been on TV.
01:41 90-year-old coffin dodger.
01:44 Honours the glorious dead.
01:50 What a waste.
01:52 Eh?
01:57 What a waste.
01:58 If you want to honour your friend, Bernie,
02:02 you've spent 70 years loving me.
02:06 I'd go anywhere with you.
02:09 We have never wasted one second of our time
02:13 together.
02:15 Are you coming to bed?
02:26 Yours or mine?
02:27 Oh.
02:28 (electronic music)