October 1941. Eighteen months into France’s occupation by German troops, young Communist members of the Resistance shoot dead an officer of the German Army. In retaliation, Hitler demands the deaths of 150 Frenchmen, as 'retribution'. The targets are to be mostly young men believed to share the assassins’ political convictions. Most of these men are taken from an internment camp for opponents of the occupation; a 35-year-old French rural administrator is ordered to select the victims. Although the parish priest appeals to their conscience and moral sensibilities, both the German military and their French helpers slavishly follow their orders.
as Guy Môquet
as Ernst Jünger
as Lucien Touya
as Jean Pierre Thimbaud
as Soldier Otto
as Oberst Speidel
as Kristucat
as Charmille
as Désiré Granet
as Victor Renelle
as Claude Lalet
as Sub-prefect Bernard Lecornu
as Dr. Maurice Ténine
as Marc Bourhis
as Abbot Moyon
as Georges Chassagne
as General Otto von Stülpnagel
as Lieutenant of the camp
as Soldier Franz
as Captain of the Choisel camp
as Ambassador Otto Abetz
as Lieutenant Hotz
as Gilbert Brustlein
as Marcel Bourdarias
as Jean Poulmarc'h
as Jules Auffret
as Julien La Panse
as Odette Nilès
