Summary
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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Credits
- Director: Henri Verneuil
- Script: François Boyer, C. Virgil Gheorghiu (novel), Wolf Mankowitz, Henri Verneuil
- Photo: Andréas Winding
- Music: Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre
- Cast: Anthony Quinn (Johann Moritz), Virna Lisi (Suzanna Moritz), Grégoire Aslan (Dobresco), Michael Redgrave (Defense lawyer), Marcel Dalio (Strul), Jan Werich (Sgt. Constantin), Harold Goldblatt (Isaac Nagy), Alexander Knox (D.A.), Liam Redmond (Father Koruga), Meier Tzelniker (Abramovici), Kenneth J. Warren (Insp. Varga), John Le Mesurier (Tribunal president), Serge Reggiani (Trajan Koruga), Robert Beatty (Col. Greenfield), Stojan Decermic (Marcou), Jean Desailly (Cabinet minister), Rada Djuricin (Juliska), Marius Goring (Col. Muller)
- Country: France
- Language: French
- Runtime: 130 min
- Aka: La 25e heure; The 25th Hour
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