La Vingt-cinquième heure is a French film first released in 1967, directed by Henri Verneuil.  The film is based on a novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu and stars Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave and Marcel Dalio.  It has also been released under the title: La 25e heure.  Our overall rating for this film is: good.


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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