The Prisoner
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4/19/1955Runtime
95 minsGenres
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A cardinal is arrested for treason against the state. He is a popular hero of his people, for his resistance against the Nazis during the war and his resistance when his country again fell to a totalitarian conqueror. In prison, his interrogator is determined to extract a confession of guilt, and thus destroy his power over his people.
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A claustrophobic psychological duel between an imprisoned cardinal and his interrogator, where the real battle is for control of the human spirit. Sparse and austere, it's a meditation on the cost of conviction under totalitarian pressure.
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