The Fifth Day of Peace (1970)

Original title

Dio è con noi

Directed by

Giuliano Montaldo

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Yugoslavia, Italy

Runtime

1h 43m

Rated

16

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 23 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the final days of World War Two, German prisoners in a Canadian camp are forced to execute two of their own for desertion. The film follows the moral crisis this order creates among the prisoners and their captors.

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What happens

The Fifth Day of Peace (original Italian title: Gott mit uns, German for "God With Us") is a 1970 war drama film directed and co-written by Giuliano Montaldo, and starring Richard Johnson, Franco Nero, Helmuth Schneider, Michael Goodliffe and Bud Spencer. It is dramatizes the May 1945 German deserter execution, in which two German prisoners-of-war in a Canadian-run camp were executed by their comrades for cowardice. The film was an international co-production between Italian and Yugoslavian companies, filmed at Jadran Studios in Zagreb. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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