The Wall

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.

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Cast

Michel del Castillo

Pablo

Denis Mahaffey

Tom

Matthieu Klossowski

Juan

Anna Pacheco

Concha

René Darmon

Bernard Anglade

Jorge Lavelli

Claude Esteban

Edgardo Cantón

Peter Kassovitz