The 25th Hour (film)

The 25th Hour (film)

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For the 2002 American film, see 25th Hour.

The 25th Hour (La Vingt-cinquième Heure)
film poster by Howard Terpning
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
Release date	16 February 1967 (1967-02-16) (US) 26 April 1967 (1967-04-26) (France)
Running time	196 minutes (Europe)
Country	France Italy Yugoslavia
Language	French English Romanian

The 25th Hour (French: La Vingt-cinquième Heure) is a 1967 anti-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[edit]

In a small village in Romania, a local police constable frames Johann Moritz (Quinn) on charges of being Jewish, because Moritz' wife, Suzanna, has refused his advances. Moritz is sent to a Romanian concentration camp as a Jew, Jacob Moritz. He escapes to Hungary with some Jewish prisoners where the Hungarians imprison them for being citizens of an enemy country (Romania). The Hungarians eventually send them to Germany to fill German "requests" for foreign labourers. In Germany Moritz is spotted by an SS officer who designates him as Aryan, frees him from the labor camp and forces him to join Waffen SS. After the war, Moritz is brutally beaten by Russians for being in the Waffen-SS and then arrested and prosecuted as a Waffen-SS war criminal by the Americans. Eventually he is 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. The story line includes Hungary's alliance with Nazi Germany, the forced cession of Eastern Romania to the Soviet Union in 1940 and subsequent events in Central Europe during and after the Second World War.

Cast[edit]

• Anthony Quinn as Johann Moritz
• Virna Lisi as Suzanna Moritz
• Grégoire Aslan as Dobresco
• Michael Redgrave as Defence 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[edit]

• The 25th Hour on IMDb
• The 25th Hour at the TCM Movie Database
• La Vingt-Cinquième Heure at AllMovie

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