The Wooden Horse The Wooden Horse The Wooden Horse is a 1950 British Second World War war film starring Leo Genn, David Tomlinson and Anthony Steel. It was directed by Jack Lee. It is based on the book of the same name by Eric Williams, who also wrote the screenplay. The film depicts the true events of an escape attempt made by POWs in the German prison camp Stalag Luft III. The wooden horse in the title of the film is a piece of exercise equipment the prisoners use to conceal their escape attempt as well as a reference to the Trojan Horse
Stalag liberate the camp. The airmen in the show "Hogan's Heroes" were imprisoned in fictitious "Luft Stalag 13" near Hammelburg. The World War II play "Stalag 17", which was made into the 1953 movie "Stalag 17", was set in Stalag XVII-B, located near Krems, Austria. The movie "Hart's War" was set in Stalag VI-A, near Hemer/Iserlohn in Military District VI In Israel of the 1950s-60s, "stalag" was a generic term for pornographic material with a theme of sadistic sexual activity between female SS officers and prisoners of war. In 2007, Ari Libsker made a film on this topic, entitled "Stalags". Stalag