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    25th Hour, The (1967)

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    The 25th Hour relates the misadventures of Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a simple and innocent Romanian peasant, who is literally dragged out of his house during WWII and taken away from his gorgeous wife Suzanna (Virna Lisi) and two sons by forces he cannot comprehend.

    A local police captain (Grégoire Aslan) who lusts after Suzanna includes Johann’s name on a list of local Jewish residents – even though Johann is Catholic – and he is sent to a forced labour camp for Jews.

    Johann explains to the Kommandant that he is not Jewish while Suzanna tries unsuccessfully to get help from the authorities to rectify the mistake, but she is forced to divorce Johann in order to keep their house.

    “For you, it’s an injustice,” he tells his fellow slave labourers, “for me, it’s a mistake.”

    The hapless Johann finally escapes from the camp with a group of Jews but is captured again and sent to a concentration camp. The SS “race specialist” there (Marius Goring) realises there has been a mistake as Johann has the profile of the perfect Aryan and proclaims him the most perfect German discovered in 400 years.

    Johann is subsequently freed and joins the SS and is unwittingly turned into a national hero in Nazi propaganda publications for having suffered the indignity of the Jewish label.

    As the war ends, Johann – apolitical and an internal optimist – is captured by the Russians and thrown into prison until he is tried as a war criminal at Nuremberg and faces execution – only to be acquitted – with the help of his British defence counsel (Michael Redgrave) – because of the testimony of the Jewish friends whose lives he saved.

    Filmed on location in Munich, Budapest and parts of Yugoslavia, The 25th Hour is one of the best anti-war films of all time.  Quinn’s characterisation of the kindly, uneducated peasant is superb.

    The Paris-Rome-Belgrade co-production in Metrocolor was packaged by Carlo Ponti with a screenplay by Henri Verneuil, Francois Boyer and Wolf Mankowitz.

    Johann Moritz
    Anthony Quinn
    Suzanna Moritz
    Virna Lisi
    Dobresco
    Grégoire Aslan
    Defence Lawyer
    Michael Redgrave
    Strul 
    Marcel Dalio
    Sgt. Constantin
    Jan Werich
    Isaac Nagy
    Harold Goldblatt
    D.A.
    Alexander Knox
    Father Koruga
    Liam Redmond
    Abramovici
    Meier Tzelniker
    Insp. Varga
    Kenneth J. Warren
    Tribunal President
    John Le Mesurier
    Trajan Koruga
    Serge Reggiani
    Col. Greenfield
    Robert Beatty
    Marcou
    Stojan Decermic
    Bailiff
    Raoul Delfosse
    Cabinet Minister
    Jean Desailly
    Juliska
    Rada Djuricin
    Col. Muller
    Marius Goring
    Capt. Brunner
    Drewe Henley
    Madame Koruga
    Dara Milosevic
    Goldenberg
    George Roderich
    Madame Nagy
    Françoise Rosay
    Joseph Grenier
    Albert Rémy
    Rosa
    Olga Schoberová
    Hurtig
    Viktor Starcic
    Nora
    Hénia Suchar
    Ghitza Ion
    David Sumner

    Director
    Henri Verneuil

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