The 5th Day of Peace

Year: 1970

Runtime: 103 mins

Language: Italian

Director: Giuliano Montaldo

WarDrama

Based on a true story, the film follows a strange case of military justice at the end of World II. Two German deserters held in an Allied POW camp are reported to a German colonel, who orders a court‑martial despite the war’s end. The Allied officers comply, sentencing the men to death and a firing squad on the “fifth day of peace.”

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