The 25th Hour (film)
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| Directed by | Henri Verneuil |
| Produced by | Carlo Ponti |
| Written by | François Boyeur Wolf Mankowitz Henri Verneuil |
| Starring | Anthony Quinn Virna Lisi |
| Music by | Georges Delerue |
| Cinematography | Andreas Winding |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
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196 minutes (Europe) |
| Country | France Italy Yugoslavia |
| Language | French English Romanian |
The 25th Hour (French: La Vingt-cinquième Heure) is a 1967 war drama film, starring Anthony Quinn and Virna Lisi. It was produced by Italian producer Carlo Ponti and directed by French director Henri Verneuil. The film is based on a novel by C. Virgil Gheorghiu. It follows the troubles experienced by a Romanian peasant couple caught up in World War II.
Plot
In a small village in Romania, a local police constable frames Johann Moritz (Quinn) as being Jewish, because his wife Suzanna has refused his advances. He is sent to a concentration camp as punishment. Eventually he is deemed part of the Aryan race and obliged to enlist as a Waffen SS soldier. After the war, he is arrested and prosecuted as a war criminal, but is ultimately released and re-united with his wife and sons in Germany.
The picture is based on the novel of the same name by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. It includes Hungary's government in collaboration with the Nazis, the encroachment of Romania by Joseph Stalin's troopers, and other happenings.
Cast
- Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz
- Virna Lisi as Suzanna Moritz
- Grégoire Aslan as Dobresco
- Michael Redgrave as Defense lawyer
- Marcel Dalio as Strul (as Dalio)
- Jan Werich as Sgt. Constantin
- Harold Goldblatt as Isaac Nagy
- Alexander Knox as Prosecutor
- Liam Redmond as Father Koruga
- Meier Tzelniker as Abramovici
- Kenneth J. Warren as Insp. Varga
- John Le Mesurier as Tribunal president
- Serge Reggiani as Trajan Koruga
External links
- Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value). The 25th Hour at IMDb
- The 25th Hour at the TCM Movie Database
- La Vingt-Cinquième Heure at AllMovie
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- 1967 films
- Articles containing French-language text
- 1960s drama films
- French films
- Italian films
- Yugoslav films
- World War II films
- English-language films
- Romanian-language films
- French-language films
- Films directed by Henri Verneuil
- Films set in Romania
- Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer films
- Films based on novels
- Film scores by Georges Delerue
- Film scores by Maurice Jarre
- Pages with broken file links
- War drama film stubs
