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.
Cast
- Michel del Castillo as Pablo
- Denis Mahaffey as Tom
- Matthieu Klossowski as Juan
- Anna Pacheco as Concha
- René Darmon
- Bernard Anglade
- Jorge Lavelli
- Claude Esteban
- Edgardo Cantón
- Peter Kassovitz