Texas 46 (2004)

Based on a true story its the untold story of Italian World War II POWS in Jan 1946 Luca Zingaretti stars as one of over 50000 Italian Prisoners of War detained at POW camps in the US Roy Schneider stars as Colonel Gartner the Commander of the camp Things take a turn for the worse when Manin is brought back from his most recent escape by a patrol force only to realize that the camp has been evacuated while he was gone Gartner is forced to keep Manin at the camp until another patrol force can come pick him up However no one ever comes The phone lines get cut and the two men realize they are completely isolated from the outside world It is up to each man now to escape the campAn untold and rarely known fact of US held Italian POWS