The One That Got Away (WW2 German flying ace Franz von Werra)

The One That Got Away is a 1957 Second World War film starring Hardy Krüger and featuring Michael Goodliffe, Jack Gwillim and Alec McCowen. The film was directed by Roy Ward Baker with a screenplay written by Howard Clewes, based on the 1956 book of the same name by Kendal Burt and James Leasor.

The film chronicles the true exploits of Oberleutnant Franz von Werra, a Luftwaffe pilot shot down over Britain in 1940. He initially tried to escape while captive in England, but was later successful during transfer to a Canadian POW camp.[2] Von Werra was the only Axis POW to succeed in escaping and make it home during the war.
[for the biography of German flying ace Franz Xaver Baron von Werra (13 July 1914 – 25 October 1941), see: Franz von Werra - Wikipedia]