Product: The 5th Day of Peace
Rating: 5.0
5th day of Peace
A very grim movie about German deserters at the end of WWII, who are captured by Canadian forces. Their former comrades in arms (led by the senior German POW played by Helmuth Schneider) also held by the Canadians, sentence them to be shot and persuade the weak Canadian Captain (played by Richard Johnson) egged on by his General (Michael Goodliffe) to carry out the sentence. No attempt here to glamorise war. Everything is very bleak, but the film is a superb character study and all the performances are excellent. Best ever performance by Richard Johnson. Only major criticism is of the unconvincing Canadian accents.The movie was never released in the UK (and maybe not in the USA either). It was released in Germany under the name "Gott Mit Uns" (God with us)