The 25th Hour
– A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture i..
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
26 Apr 1967
French, English, Romanian
Henri Verneuil
François Boyer, C. Virgil Gheorghiu (novel), Wolf Mankowitz, Henri Verneuil
Anthony Quinn, Virna Lisi, Grégoire Aslan, Michael Redgrave
During World War Two, Johann Moritz, a Romanian Jewish peasant, whose pretty wife is lusted after by the village gendarme,is denounced,arrested and sent to a concentration camp.In the camp, the camp commander mistakes him for a new recruit, a volunteer to the SS and he is drafted into the SS.Ironically, after the war he is detained by the Allied authorities for his wartime involvement with the SS.