The Verdict (1959)
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.
Director: Jean Valère
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Robert Hossein as Georges Lagrange |
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Roger Hanin as Antoine Castellani |
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Marina Vlady as Catherine Desroches |
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Béatrice Bretty as Jeanne Boissard |
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Lucien Raimbourg as François Lombard |
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Hans Verner as SS Commander (uncredited) |
| Directing | Jean Valère | Director |
| Writing | Marcel Moussy | Writer |
| Camera | Henri Decaë | Camera Operator |
| Production | Christine Gouze-Rénal | Producer |
| Writing | Robert Hossein | Writer |
| Sound | Daniel Lesur | Original Music Composer |
| Art | Bernard Evein | Production Design |
| Art | Jacques Saulnier | Production Design |
| Editing | Léonide Azar | Editor |
| Costume & Make-Up | Alexandre Marcus | Makeup Artist |
| Production | Louis Libérial | Unit Production Manager |
| Sound | Jean Rieul | Sound |
| Directing | Jean Léon | Assistant Director |
| Editing | Kenout Peltier | Assistant Editor |
