![]() ![]() Anyway, Romania was beyond the Iron Curtain at the time when theįilm was shot so, where did the producer get his peasants ? That is a Very natural wearing those costumes and they played the Hora (thatĭance in which they go round in circles at great speed) very Romanian Playing the peasants must have been Romanian also, because they felt In hearing with my own ears some Romanian peasant music being played in The producer of the film must have gone asįar as to study the Romanian village himself and I took great pleasure How did that happen, by the way ? Anyway, Very often when foreigners try to bring an accurate image of a Romanian Village athmosphere did an excellent job. The fact that whoever was in charge with recreating the Romanian Things that impressed me deeply in this movie. Poor English, just in case I make some mistakes. My only regret is that some force for some reason is keeping this film out of the market place and I do not know why. The characters and subject could not have been worked better. The 25th Hour is definitely one of those films that one can view over and over without getting tired or bored. There are very few films that are worth seeing more than once. I would actually pay a reasonable price for a copy. I have seen the film many years ago and only now is its significance becomming apparent.Īnyone know wher to get a copy of the film please share it. Peasant to Jew to Nazi and back all in such a short time. I think the lesson is that one can be labeled in to any role. It is a tragedy that it is unavailable in the "Free World" I have been trying, unsuccessfully so far to get a video or DVD of the film and will continue doing so because it is a film whose message is even more relevant today where unilateral interventionist wolves of war have been unleashed for many of the same motivations as Hitler's wolves were. The first time that I saw the film was on the TNT channel (international) and it blew me away. In some respects, it is the WWII version of Forrest Gump, with much more pathos and no happy ending. As the final irony, he ends up charged with war crimes as the poster boy for Aryan racial purity, while all along he has been nothing but a victim. He should have been very proud of this role, that of the innocent, good, somewhat simple Romanian peasant who, through no fault of his own, plays a significant role alongside some very unsavory representations of events that occurred in WWII. If not, why not? In fact, when the late Anthony Quinn died (interestingly, his name is not shown in the credits above, which is interesting because he played the victimized protagonist nor is that of Virna Lisi, who played his equally victimized wife), this film was not even listed among those in which he had starred. I have never seen the Verneuil film in America and wonder whether it was ever shown there. In fact, when I began reading the review, I thought that I had stepped into a parallel universe. ![]() I am commenting about the 1967 film, The 25th Hour, which the previous reviewer seems to have confused with the recent Spike Lee film of the same name, but with nothing to do with the this one. ![]()
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