Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
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A young boy is adopted by a priest and his wife during the Nazi occupation of Romania during the Second World War. He befriends the village idiot, who's despised by everyone else. When a German is killed in the last days of the war, the village is threatened with total destruction unless the murderer is handed over. The villagers decide to hand over the idiot.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1972-01-24
Runtime: 103 mins
Director: Sergiu Nicolaescu
Spoken language: Română
Genres: War, Drama
Original title: Then I Sentenced Them All to Death
Production Companies: Filmstudio București
Production Countries: Romania
Cast
Amza Pellea
Cristian Șofron
Ion Besoiu
Gheorghe Dinică
Ioana Bulcă
Octavian Cotescu
Iurie Darie
Ștefan Mihăilescu-Brăila
Sergiu Nicolaescu
Klára Sebők
Eugenia Bosânceanu
Eliza Petrăchescu
Ernest Maftei
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