Le Trou

Director

Jacques Becker

Runtime

132 min

Release date

5 July 1961

Country

France

Language

French

Genres

Drama, Thriller, Crime

Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system – yet their escape is anything but assured.