The Verdict

Plot

WW2 is coming to an end. On the seaside, resistant fighters are captured and imprisoned in a basement. Within an hour, all of them will be shot—an hour of fear, of impossible dreams, of false hopes. Based on a Bernanos play, it sometimes recalls, by the subject of sacrifice (a sacrifice of an average human being is not an average one), "Dialogue des Carmélites," in which nuns, during the French Revolution, were guillotined because they would have betrayed their faith if they had accepted the new rules.

Cast

Robert Hossein

Georges Lagrange

Roger Hanin

Antoine Castellani

Marina Vlady

Catherine Desroches

Béatrice Bretty

Jeanne Boissard

Lucien Raimbourg

François Lombard

Hans Verner

SS Commander (uncredited)