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Ill Met by Moonlight (1957) is a film by the British writer-director-producer team of Powell & Pressburger under the banner of The Archers, based on the novel by W. Stanley Moss.

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Based on a real event.

During WWII the Mediterranean island of Crete was occupied by the Nazis. A group of British Officers led by Maj. Patrick Leigh Fermor (Dirk Bogarde) landed on the island and, with the help of local partisans, kidnapped the Nazi Maj. Gen. Heinrich Kreipe (Marius Goring).

They took Kreipe across very rough country to a secluded cove on the far side of the island, where they were picked up and taken to Cairo.

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