Then I Sentenced Them All to Death(1972)

movie - first aired/released 1972-01-24 - 103 min - audience 7.1

War, Drama

Directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu

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.