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Olympics 40 (Polish: Olimpiada 40) is a 1980 Polish drama film directed by Andrzej Kotkowski. The film was selected as the Polish entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 53rd Academy Awards, but was not accepted as a nominee.
Plot
The film is based on actual events from World War II. During August 1940, prisoners of war celebrated a "special Olympics" called the International Prisoner-of-War Olympic Games at Stalag XIII-A in Langwasser, near Nuremberg, Germany. An Olympic flag, 29 by 46 cm in size, was made of a Polish prisoner's shirt and, drawn in crayon, it featured the Olympic rings and banners for Belgium, France, Great Britain, Norway, Poland, and the Netherlands. Olympics 40 tells the story of these games and of one of the prisoners of war, Teodor Niewiadomski.
Cast
Mariusz Benoit as Piotr
Jerzy Bończak as Jacques
Tadeusz Galia as Leon
Krzysztof Janczar as Andrzej
Ryszard Kotys as Schlappke
Wojciech Pszoniak as Schulz
See also
1940 Summer Olympics
List of submissions to the 53rd Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film
List of Polish submissions for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film
References
External links
Olympics 40 at IMDb
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