William Berger

William Berger

출생 : 1928-06-20, Innsbruck, Austria

사망 : 1993-10-02

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William Berger, also known as Bill Berger and Wilhelm Berger, born Wilhelm Thomas Berger was an Austrian American actor, mostly associated with Euro and spaghetti Westerns, as well as travel documentaries.

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FantastiCozzi
William Berger
A feature-length documentary about the life and career of Italian director Luigi Cozzi and his obsession with Science Fiction and Fantasy.
Les avatars de la mort d’Empédocle
In the summer of 1986, Danièle Huillet and Jean-Marie Straub were working in the park of an old Sicilian mansion and in a clearing at the foot of Mount Etna shooting Der Tod des Empedokles. Assistant cameraman Jean-Paul Toraille toyed around, so to speak, with his first video camera, filming the daily work on the set. Now, 24 years later, he was joined by Jean-Marie Straub in editing the material into a film. Anyone who expected the shooting of Les Avatars de la mort d’Empédocle to be an austere affair, an exercise entirely devoid of humour or a Straubian tour de force is proven wrong: so much lightness, joy, concentration, spells of waiting for the sun to come out – and even proper slapstick in between – is hard to find.
Berlin '39
Ernest
A German officer is forced to marry Louise, daughter of a general, hero of the First World War. But Louise maintains lesbian relationships with Margo.
Jungle of Fear
Dr. Quasimodo
An action movie directed by Jess Franco.
Buck at the Edge of Heaven
Grandfather Thomas
Loosely based upon Jack London's novels, this is a canine adventure set in the wilderness of the far North, amidst gold diggers, outlaws and children-in-distress.
Lex Minister
Minister Otto Sauer has just resigned. As usual, he walks over to the Eden Bar to muse about the rise and the fall of the mighty. This time, however, the evening takes a different course. He himself gives an account of the symbiosis of power and corruption while still defending it. In his opinion he has been made the scapegoat of the party. The overthrown minister is a fictional figure, yet so easy to recognize.
I'm Dangerous Tonight
Jonas Wilson
An ancient Aztec cloth with a curse accidentally finds its way into the possession of a young woman. She decides to make a dress from the cloth. Whoever wears this cloth/dress comes under its spell; all inhibitions and moral responsibilities are lost.
Dr. M
Penck
In the not-too-distant future Berlin is shocked by a series of spectacular suicides; a policeman's investigations lead him to a beautiful, enigmatic woman and the revelation of a sinister plot to manipulate the population through mass hypnosis.
마야
Salomon Slivak
An Ancient Mayan curse is awakened in the ancient temples in Mexico, and people are killed in strange and gory ways by an invisible force.
Dial: Help
Prof. Irving Klein
A psychic finds herself tapping into the "energy" of a deceased phone operator. She also finds that her friends soon begin dying mysteriously. An investigator determines to track down the cause.
Camillo Castiglioni oder die Moral der Haifische
Captain of the cavalry
Psychological and sociological portrait of Camillo Castiglioni, the king of inflation, who became one of Europe's richest men in the twenties through speculation and war profiteering.
The Spider Labyrinth
Mysterious Man
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
Top Line
Alonso Kintero
A down-on-his-luck author makes the find of a lifetime in the remote Columbian jungle, in the form of an alien spacecraft . He sets off to announce his find to the world, but finds that a mishmash of government agents, organized crime members, neo-Nazi extremists and extraterrestrials are all out to prevent him from revealing his discovery.
Il vizio di vivere
Hell Hunters
Karl
A Nazi scientist, wanted as a war criminal, develops a spider serum that turns people into fascist Nazi zombies. A pair of investigators who have devoted their lives to hunting down Nazi war criminals set out to stop him.
The Brother from Space
Colonel Grant
장고 2 - 돌아온 장고
Old Timer
Former gunfighter Django has become a monk and abandoned his violent former ways. His daughter is kidnapped by rogue Hungarian soldiers using slave labor to run a silver mine. Django casts off his habit and digs up his machine gun to practice a little liberation theology.
The Death of Empedocles
Kritias
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillet of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Skipper
Control
Mr. Peterson
An experiment of psychological effects under stressful conditions in a shelter. When fifteen strangers are put into a nuclear shelter to see how long they can survive without interaction with the outside, things work out fine.
Distant Lights
dottor Montanari
Alien spirits from outer space land on earth and take over the bodies of the recently deceased--but their purpose isn't what it would appear to be.
Golden Temple Amazons
Uruck the Temple Guardian / Priest
A woman, raised by an Amazon tribe after they killed her parents, seeks revenge on the tribe for their deaths by joining an expedition looking for the tribe's secret golden temple.
Tarot
A director (Hanns Zischler), his fiancee (Vera Tschechowa), a scriptwriter (Rudiger Vogler) and a student interact and discuss their emotions, at length.
The Berlin Affair
The Professor
In 1938 Berlin, Gudrun Landgrebe, wife of Nazi functionary Kevin McNally, begins taking art lessons. She makes the acquaintance of another student, Japanese ambassador's daughter Mio Takaki. Soon afterwards, the two women begin a passionate lesbian affair. This leads to a chain reaction of disaster and tragedy, culminating with the inevitable intervention of the Gestapo. Despite the film's galloping sexual passions, The Berlin Affair is an exercise in aloofness, keeping the characters at arm's length-surprising, considering that the director was Liliana Cavani, auteur of the erotic classic The Night Porter (1974). The film was based on The Buddhist Cross, a novel by Junichiro Tanizaki.
Tex and the Lord of the Deep
Kit Carson
Based on the adventures of the hero Tex from the comic strip by Bonelli. An interesting spaghetti-western/fantasy movie that blends magic and mythology with six-guns and stagecoaches.
헤라클레스 2
King Minos
Hercules searches for the Seven Thunderbolts of Zeus, which have been stolen by renegade gods.
Dirty Game in Casablanca
Dean Baker
Dean, a failed American writer, receives some unexpected news: his wife, who belongs to a wealthy family, has filed for divorce. Stunned, he decides to commit suicide. His initial attempt fails when he has second thought. But during a drunken blackout spent gambling he wins big and promises all the winnings to the man who can kill him...but they must possess a special playing card.
Zielscheiben
Broschat
Springtime in Vienna
Phillip Marboe
Martin Powolny, a down and out actor, calls himself Tiger. He lives in a tree house and practices his characteristic yell. An offer to make a film and an air-travel ticket entice him into the big city of Vienna. The director hopes he can finance the film if Tiger plays the leading role. There is no screen story as yet. Running away from a mean nightclub owner, Tiger is hit by an automobile and lands in a hospital.
Devilfish
Professor Donald West
A marine biologist, a dolphin trainer, a research scientist, and a local sheriff try to hunt down a large sea monster, a shark/octopus hybrid, that is devouring swimmers and fishermen off a south Florida coast.
한나 K
German Journalist
Israeli attorney Hanna Kaufman has her beliefs challenged when she is appointed to the defense of Selim Bakri. Kaufman, who was born in the United States to survivors of the Holocaust, has always accepted Israel's right to exist. But she bears witness to some of the costs of its sovereignty when she meets Bakri, a dispossessed Palestinian man facing serious criminal charges who wants the same thing as his supposed enemies: to reclaim his family home.
헤라클레스
King Minos
Hercules, a semi-divine being, squares off against King Minos, who is attempting to use science to gain power and take over the world. With the help of a benevolent sorceress, Circe, Hercules tries to save his beloved Cassiopeia from being sacrificed by Minos, and struggles against laser-breathing creatures and an evil sorceress.
Un'avventura a Campo de' Fiori
A man leaves home on errands and is "kidnapped" by a sunny Rome.
Ironmaster
Mogo
A tale that takes place at the dawn of history. The movie tells the story of a tribe that discovers how to fashion weapons out of iron and use them for their own survival. However, the creation of iron also causes the tribe to battle for possession of the new weapons.
바티칸의 철십자
Fr. Hugh O'Flaherty is a Vatican official in 1943-45 who has been hiding downed pilots, escaped prisoners of war, and Italian resistance families. His diplomatic status in a Catholic country prevents Colonel Kappler from openly arresting him, but O'Flaherty's activities become so large that the Nazi's decide to assassinate him the next time he leaves the Vatican. O'Flaherty continues his work in a variety of disguises. Based on a true story. Written by John Vogel
The Girl from Trieste
Charly
A middle-aged artist (Ben Gazarra) sketching on the beach witnesses a young woman (Ornella Muti) being rescued from drowning. He loans her a blanket. Later she returns the blanket and they have sex several times, but she always leaves right afterward, leaving the man to wonder who she is and where she goes. Things become more complicated as he begins to fall in love with her, and after his regular girlfriend (Mimsy Farmer), with whom he has a curiously open relationship, returns. He eventually begins to realize his mysterious new lover may be very much insane.
Diamond Connection
Inspektor
Crashed and sunken in a murky sea, a passenger plane had a very special package... a briefcase full of diamonds. These illegally acquired and transported missing diamonds become an irresistible challenge to a few interest groups. They will kill, deceive, and plot to capture the diamonds for themselves.
Day of the Cobra
Jack Goldsmith
An American narcotics agent is murdered in Italy. The head of the department decides to hire Larry Stanziani, 'The Cobra'. Larry, a former agent and now a third-rate private detective, uses the opportunity to get even with an old enemy, but soon he finds out he's facing a relentless organization
Holocaust 2
Col. Hans
A secret group of Jewish activists locate and murder the doctors and soldiers who tortured their relations in a notorious extermination camp.
I viaggiatori della sera
Cocky Fontana
Die Totenschmecker
Felix
Hell breaks lose in a remote farm in the Bavarian alps where the family of a ruthless patriarch goes on a killing spree when their mentally challanged brother accidently murders a gypsy girl.
Dirty World
Senator Alberici
Senator Alberici tries to approach the secretariat of his party with a campaign against immorality. In reality the politician is a pervert with homosexual tendencies that he expresses with men and women.
바이 바이 몽키
Paul Jefferson
라파예트와 루이지는 고대 로마를 테마로 한 뉴욕의 작은 박물관에서 일하는 중이다. 어느 날 루이지는 허드슨 강을 산책하다 거대한 킹콩 모형을 발견한다. 그리고 그 아래서 새끼 침팬지를 발견한 루이지는 이를 킹콩의 자식이라 생각하고 라파예트와 함께 침팬지를 키우기 시작한다. 1978년 칸영화제 심사위원상 수상.
Closed Circuit
2° pistolero
During a spaghetti western screening a man is shot dead, the doors are locked and the police is called in to investigate.
Comincerà tutto un mattino: io donna tu donna
Luciano
와이프 미스트리스
Count Brandini
안토니오는 아름다운 아내와 함께 자기 사업에 열중하는 40대의 중년 신사다. 그러나 그는 아내 모르게 사업을 빙자하여 사생활을 즐기고 있었다. 그러던 어느 날, 살인 현장에 있었다는 이유로 누명을 쓰고 도망자가 되어 자기 집안이 건너다 보이는 옆집에 숨어 지내게 된다. 남편이 돌아오지 않자 아내는 남편이 타고 다니던 마차를 타고 다니다가 평소 남편의 애정 행각을 알게 되고 복수라도 하듯이 남편의 친구들과 어울린다. 그러나 그녀는 우연히 남편이 옆집에서 자기를 주시하고 있다는 것을 알게 된다.
캘리포니아
Mr. Preston
남북전쟁 이후 감옥에서 풀려난 마이클 캘리포니아 랜덤은 미주리로 향한다. 그런데 그와 함께하던 파트너 윌리엄이 도적에게 죽임을 당하면서 캘리포니아는 그의 가족에게 유품을 돌려주고 무법자로부터 그들을 돕기로 결심한다.
This Is the Night
Directed by Carlo Di Carlo
Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Father Vicente
16-year-old Maria is forced into Serra D'Aires convent, secretly run by Satanists.
Oil
Bill Mann
When a huge fire erupts at an oil field in the wilds of the Sahara Desert, an American who specializes in fighting oil-field fires and his team are called in to put it out. As the fire rages out of control, the expert finds that he not only has to battle the fire but greed and political corruption as well.
케오마
William Shannon
프랑코 네로 주연작! 백인과 인디언의 혼혈인 케오마는 북군으로 참여해 군 복무를 마치고 고향으로 돌아오는 길에 우연히 마을 밖으로 쫓겨난 임산부를 도와주게 된다. 임산부와 마을 사람들은 케오마가 자신들을 도와주러 나타난 구세주 같은 존재로 생각하게 되는데... (THE MOVIE)
L'agnese va a morire
Clinto
Nick the Sting
Roizman
Nick Hezard, a young con man, wants to avenge the death of a friend of his and organizes a swindle trying to cheat Robert Turner, an American businessman he thinks responsible for his friend's death. He succeeds in getting a hundred thousand swiss francs and uses them to carry out the second part of his plan.
Big Pot
Mackenzie
Eurocrime/Poliziotteschi movie from 1976
The Career of a Chambermaid
Franz
This slight skewering of the mindset of the Fascist era when Italy’s “White Telephone” films (conservative minded sophisticated comedy-dramas revolving around the bourgeoisie) were in vogue gives Agostina Belli her best role – an ambitious Venetian girl that goes from chambermaid to prostitute to singer to film-star to mistress of ‘Il Duce’! – for which she received a special David Di Donatello award, the Italian equivalent of the Oscar.
La vita in gioco
Andrea
A filmmaker of committed films, together with his lover, plans to commit suicide within a few days.
Parapsycho: Spectrum of Fear
Split into three episodes, this film examines extrasensory perception, reincarnation and telepathy.
The Marvelous Visit
man on bicycle
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself as Jean, an angel who has just arrived on Earth. Naturally, the rector doesn’t believe this, but decides to humour the young man. At first, Jean’s arrival in the village causes no upset. He is a harmless soul, full of good intentions and capable of only the kindest deeds. But then the villagers grow wary of him, and this wariness turns to outright hostility when Jean unwittingly causes an accident...
Night of the Skull
Baron Simon Tobias
Horror mystery about the residents of a Louisiana castle who are being murdered by a masked killer. When the family arrives for the reading of Marion's will, his wife is strapped to the face of a cliff and drowned by the tide. More murders follow, and as Inspector Bore investigates, he discovers some dark secrets in the family's past.
Fifteen Year Old Captain
Negoro
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All accept this arrangement, even Negoro - whose resentment will add treachery to circumstances already difficult to take the ship to safe harbour. To a point the task may prove impossible...
Three Tough Guys
Captain Ryan
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
Man with the Golden Winchester
Mathias Boyd
A Spaghetti western styled adventure of Zorro.
Fasthand
Machedo
Macedo, bloodthirsty leader of a gang of Confederates shoots the captain of the Northerners, Jeff Mallighan, known as "Fast Hand", shattering his right hand. Jeff, wounded on the ground, could not see the face of the villain, but his silver spurs have stuck in his mind as well as his unique gun. Some time after this event Macedo continues with his misdeeds, however, a mysterious horseman dressed in black will stand in his way.
Yankee Dudler
Doc Holliday
After years in prison, a gang of criminals are deported from Bavaria and arrive as free immigrants to America. They kill an Indian by accident and do different jobs such as cleaning latrines, until they get installed in an abandoned house next to an Indian woman. One day someone will propose to perpetrate a robbery ...
On the Third Day Arrived the Crow
The Crow
Lincoln Tate and Lorenzo Rineschi are the Kennedy/Connelly brothers who are out to avenge their father's death at the hands of the Crow and his men. In their search, they stumble upon a gold shipment that the bandits are after.
Super Fly T.N.T.
Lefebre
A Harlem drug dealer and his girlfriend retire to Rome, where he joins an African revolution.
The Executioner of God
Padre Tony Lang
A former gunman turned priest seeks vengeance on three bandits who are masquerading as law-abiding citizens.
Kung Fu Brothers in the Wild West
Angelo Biondo
A Kung-Fu fighter and his brother run away from a very important fight in China and are trailed to the United States by his opponent, where he finds him and a gang of outlaws in a small western town.
Colt in the Hand of the Devil
Isaac McCorney
When a cowboy is released from prison he fulfils a promise to visit a town run by a gang of ruthless gunmen. In doing so he makes a lot of enemies.
Slaughter Day
Ralf
Michael considers himself a genius criminal and plans the big coup. He forms three new gangs who know nothing about each other and each only know part of his plan. In the background Michael pulls the strings and mercilessly plays the actors on his stage against each other. This strategy also poses unsolvable problems for the police until something goes wrong and the house of cards collapses.
The Sinister Eyes of Dr. Orloff
Dr. Orloff
Amid the craggy, dusty hills of southern France, a woman screams in the night. Gorgeous Melissa Comfort, a wealthy heiress confined to a wheelchair since birth, cries out in her nightmares, terrified of a dream that comes night after night. In this night terror, she's 10-years-old. Running from a man who may or may not be her father.
The Big Bust Out
Bob Shaw
Seven beautiful women in a high security prison set the stage for a big bust out.
My Dear Killer
Giorgio Canavese
Following the mysterious decapitation of an insurance investigator, Police Inspector Peretti is put onto the case, but all the clues lead to an unsolved case of kidnapping and murder.
A Bullet for a Stranger
Duke
John and George McIntire are a couple of naive brothers who travel to a lawless western town to see their father. The bumbling siblings get themselves into big trouble after they beat up a member of a gang of extortionists. Fortunately, a mysterious roving gunfighter decides to help the guys out of their jam.
8월의 달을 위한 다섯 인형들
Prof. Gerry Farrell
8월의 달을 위한 다섯 개의 인형은 너무 많은 것을 아는 여자와 함께 마리오 바바를 대표하는 스릴러다. 아가사 크리스티의 걸작 추리 소설 (국내 제목 '그리고 아무도 없었다')이 원작으로, 등장인물의 수는 줄었지만 내용은 크게 다르지 않다. 배가 아니면 접근이 힘든 해변의 저택에 모인 6인의 남녀가 보이지 않는 살인마에 의해 하나둘 살해당하고 최종적으로 한 명만이 살아남는 것. 에서 지알로 장르를 창조한 마리오 바바는 이 영화에서도 예의 그 장기를 유감없이 발휘한다. 붉은 색을 주조로 한 원색의 저택 인테리어, 여성의 육체를 노골적으로 탐하는 카메라 운용, 핏빛 스타일이라고 해도 좋을 잔인무도한 살해 장면까지, 특히 시체들이 고깃덩이와 함께 냉동고에 대롱대롱 매달린 장면은 희생자의 고통을 즐기려는 듯한 마리오 바바의 악취미적 연출이 절로 묻어난다. 의 악당 리더를 연기한 모리스 폴리가 살해당하는 남자 중 한 명으로 출연한다. (2011년 한국시네마테크협의회 - 마리오 바바 특별전)
The Dove Must Not Fly
Major Harris
An undercover Nazi in Libya aims to steal fuel and deliver it to a specific location in the desert where an Italian bomber would refuel on its way to Allied target.
Shadow of Illusion
Caleb
A young woman is lured to Cairo, where a cult of devil worshippers wants to sacrifice her.
Sartana in the Valley of Death
Lee Calloway alias Sartana
Smooth and lethal gunfighter Lee Calloway helps three bandit brothers escape from jail under the condition that they give him fifty percent of the stolen gold they have hidden. Of course, the treacherous sibling trio don't plan on keeping their end of the deal. Written by Woodyanders
사바타
Banjo
텍사스 작은 어느 마을의 유지 스탱글은 자신의 아래 부하들을 시켜 은행강도를 계획한다. 그리고 은행을 터는데 성공한 강도들이 의기양양 할 사이도 없이 말수가 거의 없는 생전 들어보지도 못한 사바타 라는 한 인간이 마을에 불쑥 나타나서는 이 은행강도들을 죽이고 강탈당했던 돈을 찾아온다. 그리고 사바타는 마을 유지의 탈을 쓰고 뻔뻔하게 지내온 주모자 스탱글을 협박하기 시작한다. 스탱글은 사바타에게 돈을 주기보다는 차라리 없애기로 마음을 먹고 암살자 총잡이들을 고요하여 보내지만 차례로 죽은 시체로 당하게 된다. 그러다 교묘하게 개조한 라이플을 악기 벤조를 연주하면서 자신을 나타내지 않고 다니는 무법자 이름도 악랑 같은 벤조가 이 마을에 나타난다. 거의 사바타와 대등한 사격술을 갖춘 무법자 벤조는 암암리에 스탱글과 사바타 양쪽으로부터 힘을 견주어 보는데...
No Room To Die
Everett Murdock/Sartana
Mexican's are being smuggled over the border to work as cheap labour for wealthy land baron Fargo. His gang is made up of known criminals with bounties on their heads, this greatly interests two bounty hunters who may have to team up to achieve their goals.
If You Meet Sartana Pray for Your Death
Lasky
After a stagecoach is robbed and the passengers murdered, a long and tangled series of surprise attacks and murderous double-crosses, leaves the coach's strongbox in the hands of the killer Lasky. It is up to the legendary hero Sartana to track down the missing money and determine just who is ultimately behind the grisly robberies and killings.
Man Who Cried for Revenge
Sam Kellogg
A Civil War veteran is amnesic after being shot in the head. When he returns to his hometown, he finds out that he has been declared a deserter. The local judge offers him a chance to clear his name, but he only wants to send him against some dangerous outlaw and his gang.
Every Bastard a King
Roy Hemmings
An American reporter and his girl-friend are visiting Israel to get a "sense of the people", in the process he meets many Israelis and some Arabs as well, particularly becoming friends with an Israeli Army reserve officer as well as an idealistic young man who is a pacifist.
Today We Kill, Tomorrow We Die!
Francis 'Colt' Moran
A man, released after a jail term for a crime he did not commit, raises a gang to go after the man who framed him.
Face to Face
Charley Siringo
History Professor Brad Fletcher heads west for his health, but falls in with Soloman Bennett's outlaw gang. Fascinated by their way of life, Fletcher finally takes over the gang, leading with a new 'efficient' ruthlessness.
The Harem
Mario
A seductive woman pushes three men to the limits toying with their sexual desires and male pride.
The Day the Fish Came Out
A plane carrying a weapon more dangerous than a nuclear weapon goes down near Greece. To prevent panic, the officials go in dressed as tourists (who are dressed so casually that the pilots assume that they are all gay). The pilots are not to make themselves known and can't contact the rescue team. The secrecy causes a comedy of errors including the desolate Greek Isle deciding that since tourists have now arrived, they have to become touristy.
The Man with the Balloons
Benny, a neighbor
Mario is a Milan industrialist who is constantly testing balloons to see how much air one can take before busting.
El Cisco
El Cisco
El Cisco is a mysterious Gringo accused of a crime he never committed. With the help of a doctor he pretends to be dead but when the dishonest Vice-Sheriff and his accomplices find out the trick - El Cisco is arrested! Thanks to his long experience and a clever stratagem, our hero escapes... well determined to seek revenge. source: SWDB (www.spaghetti-western.net)
The Murder Clinic
Dr. Robert Vance
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors
Ringo's Big Night
Jack Balman
Four masked men rob money from a stagecoach in route to a bank in Tombstone. The federal government vows to catch the culprits and recover the money. Two suspects are imprisoned - the notorious gunman Jack Bowman and a wounded bandit. The two cellmates form a partnership and the wounded man gives Bowman 3 of the 4 names of the other bandits - the outlaw Black Norton, Bailey, and Sam the sheriff. Bowman escapes and starts out after the money.
Oggi, domani, dopodomani
Benny (segment "L'uomo dei 5 palloni")
Italian comedy film in three segments
탈주 특급
제2차 세계 대전이 끝나가는 1944년 이탈리아 북부에 있는 한 연합군 포로 수용소에 폭격 임무중 격추되어 포로가 된 미공군의 조셉 라이언 대령이 오게 된다. 이 포로 수용소에는 영국군과 미군이 함께 수용되어 있는데 패전을 예상한 이탈리아군이 관리 책임을 맡고 있지만, 독일군의 강압적인 태도에 불만을 품고 연합군 포로들에게 우호적이다. 상급자인 라이언 대령은 자연스럽게 연합군 포로들의 지휘관이 되는데 마침 이탈리아에는 정변이 일어나 무솔리니가 실각하고 이탈리아 정부는 연합군과 협상을 하려한다. 포로 수용소의 연합군 포로들도 이 소식을 듣고 기뻐하지만 독일군은 이탈리아 북부를 재빨리 점령하고 포로수용소도 접수한다. 그리고 연합군 포로들을 독일 본토로 이동시키는 계획을 수립하고 포로들을 열차 편으로 수송하기 시작하는데, 이를 알게 된 연합군 포로들은 라이언 대령의 지휘로 수송열차를 탈취해서 중립국인 스위스로 탈출하려고 한다. 알프스 산중에서 수송열차를 탈취한 포로들은 곧 독일군의 대대적인 공격을 받게 되고 격전 끝에 가까스로 국경을 넘는데 성공하지만 지휘관인 라이언 대령은 독일군에게 사살된다.