Michael Caine and Glenda Jackson — both two-time Oscar winners with 10 nominations between them — are teaming up for The Great Escaper, based on real events about a WWII veteran who breaks out of his care home toattend the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings in France.
Pathe is co-producing the film and will be presenting it to buyers at the European Film Market next month. In the summer of 2014 — the 70th anniversary of the D-Day Landings — octogenarian Bernard "Bernie" Jordan (Caine) made global headlines.
He staged a "great escape" from his care home to join fellow war veterans on a beach in Normandy, commemorating their fallen comrades.
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