Film Synopsis
In 1939, Johan Moritz and his young wife Suzanna celebrate the baptism of their second child in a small Rumanian village. The only person who appears unwilling to join in the festivities is Dobusco, a policeman who secretly covets Moritz's wife. It is he who arranges to have Moritz arrested and sent to a labour camp, as though he were a Jew. Not long after his arrival at the camp, Moritz escapes and, thanks to the intervention of a Nazi ethnologist, soon finds himself wearing the uniform of an S.S. officer, a uniform that he does not disgrace...© James Travers
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Film Credits
- Director: Henri Verneuil
- Script: François Boyer, Wolf Mankowitz, Henri Verneuil, C. Virgil Gheorghiu (novel)
- Cinematographer: Andréas Winding
- Music: Georges Delerue, Maurice Jarre
- Cast: Anthony Quinn (Johann Moritz), Virna Lisi (Suzanna Moritz), Grégoire Aslan (Dobresco), Michael Redgrave (Defense lawyer), Marcel Dalio (Strul), Jan Werich (Sgt. Constantin), Harold Goldblatt (Isaac Nagy), Alexander Knox (D.A.), Liam Redmond (Father Koruga), Meier Tzelniker (Abramovici), Kenneth J. Warren (Insp. Varga), John Le Mesurier (Tribunal president), Serge Reggiani (Trajan Koruga), Robert Beatty (Col. Greenfield), Stojan Decermic (Marcou), Raoul Delfosse (L'huissier), Jean Desailly (Cabinet minister), Rada Djuricin (Juliska), Marius Goring (Col. Muller), Drewe Henley (Capt. Brunner)
- Country: France / Italy / Yugoslavia
- Language: French / English / Romanian
- Support: Color
- Runtime: 130 min
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