The Verdict
1959, French. Directed by Jean Valère.
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.
- Runtime
- 1h 19m
- Post-credits
- None listed
- Language
- French
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- Released
- 2 October 1959
- Original title
- La Sentence
- Country
- France
- Written by
- Marcel Moussy, Robert Hossein
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The Verdict runs 79 minutes (1h 19m).
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The Verdict isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 2 October 1959. (Checked 9 November 2026.)
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Who directed The Verdict?
The Verdict (1959) was directed by Jean Valère and stars Robert Hossein, Roger Hanin, Marina Vlady.