The story line includes Hungary's alliance with Nazi Germany, the forced cession of Eastern Romania to the Soviet Union in 1940 and subsequent events in central Europe during and after World War II. The picture is based on the novel of the same name by Constantin Virgil Gheorghiu. Eventually he is released and re-united with his wife and sons in Germany. After the war, Moritz is brutally beaten by Russians for being in the Waffen SS and then arrested and prosecuted as a Waffen SS war criminal by the Americans. In Germany Moritz is spotted by an SS officer who designates him as Aryan, frees him from the labor camp and forces him to join Waffen SS. He is then forced to become a Nazi SS officer. The 25th Hour 2h 10m 1967 Overview Synopsis Credits Photos & Videos Film Details Articles & Reviews Notes Brief Synopsis A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis. He is then taken to a concentration camp where he is finally able to prove that he is not Jewish. When he turns him down the officer falsely outs Johann as a Jew to get his revenge. WWII is raging when a local police officer desires his wife. The Hungarians eventually send them to Germany to fill German "requests" for foreign laborers. 7.4 (2,088) Johann cannot seem to catch a break. He escapes to Hungary with some Jewish prisoners where the Hungarians imprison them for being citizens of an enemy country (Romania). Moritz is sent to a Romanian concentration camp as a Jew, Jacob Moritz. In a small village in Romania, a local police constable frames Johann Moritz (Quinn) on charges of being Jewish, because Moritz' wife, Suzanna, has refused his advances. Anthony Quinn becomes a Romanian peasant who endures eight years of hardship and war in The 25th Hour, a suspense drama set during World War II and based on C.
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