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La Vingt-cinquième heure (1967) - film review

  Henri Verneuil Dramastars 3
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In 1939, Johan Moritz and his young wife Suzanna celebrate the baptism of their second child in a small Rumanian village.  The only person who appears unwilling to join in the festivities is Dobusco, a policeman who secretly covets Moritz’s wife.  It is he who arranges to have Moritz arrested and sent to a labour camp, as though he were a Jew.  Not long after his arrival at the camp, Moritz escapes and, thanks to the intervention of a Nazi ethnologist, soon finds himself wearing the uniform of an S.S. officer, a uniform that he does not disgrace...
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