Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
– A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Sec..
A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
24 Jan 1972
Romanian
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Titus Popovici (novel), Titus Popovici (screenplay)
Amza Pellea, Cristian Sofron, Ion Besoiu, Gheorghe Dinica
During World War II, just before the events of August 23rd 1944, a German soldier is found murdered in a Romanian village. The dead soldier's superior threatens the villagers that unless the perpetrator is handed over by the following morning they will all face reprisals. In order to avoid this, the village intellectuals try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save them.