The Verdict

The Verdict

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Status

Released

Release Date

Oct 2, 1959

Runtime

1h 19m

Genres

Drama

Original Title

La Sentence

Production Companies

Progéfi

Director

Jean Valère

Description

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 recall ,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).