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The Fifth Day of Peace

The Fifth Day of Peace

1970 · 103 min · IT · 5.5 (23 votes)
Dir. Giuliano Montaldo · Starring Franco Nero, Richard Johnson, Larry Aubrey, Helmuth Schneider, Bud Spencer, Michael Goodliffe · Music Ennio Morricone

“One of the most bizarre episodes in the annals of "military justice"”

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Based on a true story. Near the end of World War II, two German deserters are put in an Allied POW camp. When a rigid and militaristic German colonel learns about their desertion, he wants them court-martialed, even if the war is over. The uninterested Allied officers oblige him, and the two men face the firing squad on "the fifth day of peace".

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This film is a grim, slow-burn exploration of the chilling aftermath of war, where bureaucratic indifference and rigid ideology collide. It's a dread-soaked meditation on injustice, moral compromise, and the enduring human cost of conflict, unfolding with a stark, somber intensity.

dread-soakedbleaktensesomberunjustslow-burngritty realismhistorical dramastark cinematographypost-war dramamiscarriage of justicewar's lingering crueltymoral compromiseabuse of authority
naziworld war iiprisoner of warmock trialmiscarriage of justice
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