This has long been a favorite movie and in our writing and casting processes the one my co-writer Tom Shoval and I talked about most in terms of building characters first on the page and then bringing them to life in casting for a magnetic group chemistry. A procedural masterpiece of camaraderie and betrayal that will break your heart.
— Jake Paltrow

In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Based on the novel by José Giovanni, Jacques Becker’s Le trou (The Hole) balances lyrical humanism with a tense, unshakable air of imminent danger. (Criterion)