Introduction

Enclosure (French: L’Enclos) is a 1961 French-Yugoslav drama film directed by Armand Gatti. It was entered into the 2nd Moscow International Film Festival where Gatti won the Silver Prize for Best Director.

Outline

This prison camp drama by director and co-scripter Armand Gatti, his first film, reflects the early ’60s resurgence of interest in the crimes against humanity committed by the Nazis in World War II.

Gatti focuses on two men in a German concentration camp who have been cruelly penned inside an enclosure. One of the men, Karl (Herbert Wochinz), is a strong, bitter anti-Nazi German – a target of the Gestapo. The SS wants information on a rumoured organisation of resistance fighters inside the prison and they know he has it. The other man, David (Jean Negroni) is a Jew. If one of the men dies within a certain time then the other will be released. He will not be killed. Otherwise, both will be executed.

The resistance fighters in the prison try to help the two as best they can, while the pair inside the enclosure slowly come to know each other as though they were brothers.

Cast

• Hans Christian Blech as Karl
• Jean Négroni as David
• Herbert Wochinz as Scheller
• Tamara Miletic as Anna
• Maks Furijan as Weissenborn
• Stevo Žigon as Dragulavic
• Janez Vrhovec as Walter (as Janez Vrkovec)
• Michel Bouyer as Doctor Crémieux
• Janez Skof as Kapo #1
• Janez Cuk as Kapo #2
• Janko Hocevar as Jova
• Pero Kvrgić as Sanchez
• Lojze Potokar as Police Officer
• Frane Milčinski as Wagner

Production & Filming Details

• Director(s):
  • Armand Gatti
• Producer(s):
  • Lado Vilar … producer
• Writer(s):
  • Armand Gatti … (story)
  • Pierre Joffroy … (story)
  • Armand Gatti … (dialogue)
  • Armand Gatti … (adaptation)
  • Pierre Lary … (adaptation)
• Music:
  • Bojan Adamic
• Cinematography:
  • Robert Juillard
• Editing:
  • Yvonne Martin
• Production:
  • Clavis Films
  • Triglav Film
• Distributor(s):
  • Clavis Films (France, 2014)(re-release, theatrical)
  • Unidex (France, 1960)(theatrical)
• Release Date: July 1961 (Moscow Film Festival, Soviet Union).
• Running time: 105 minutes.
• Rating: Unknown.
• Country: France and Yugoslavia.
• Language: French and German.

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