Overview

Prisoners await execution by firing squad when they are captured during the Spanish Civil War in this drama taken from the novella by Jean-Paul Sarte. Pablo is a loyalist jailed after he searches for his brother. An Irish mercenary and a Belgian physician are his cellmates. Flashbacks recall their lives before the war as they spend their last moments on Earth waiting for their date with death.

Details

Cast

Michel del Castillo

Denis Mahaffey

Matthieu Klossowski

Anna Pacheco

René Darmon

Bernard Anglade

Jorge Lavelli

Claude Esteban

Edgardo Cantón

Peter Kassovitz