He Who Must Die
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| Directed by | Jules Dassin |
| Produced by | Henri Bérard |
| Written by | Ben Barzman Jules Dassin |
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Jean Servais Carl Möhner Grégoire Aslan |
| Cinematography | Gilbert Chain Jacques Natteau |
| Edited by | Roger Dwyre Pierre Gillette |
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122 minutes |
| Country | France |
| Language | French |
He Who Must Die (French: Celui qui doit mourir, Italian: Colui che deve morire) is a 1957 French film directed by Jules Dassin. It is based on the novel Christ Recrucified (also published as The Greek Passion) by Nikos Kazantzakis. It was entered into the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.
In a Turkish-occupied Greek village shortly after World War I, villagers put on a Passion Play, with ordinary people taking the roles of Jesus, Peter, Judas, etc. Staging the play leads to them rebelling against their Turkish rulers in a way that mirrors Jesus's story.
The film received a generally positive response. It was favorably reviewed in Time and The New Yorker, and received awards in communist eastern Europe (Dassin was well known for his left-wing views), and even some liberal Catholics praised it.Bosley Crowther for The New York Times described it as "brutally realistic", praising the "daring sort of candor and relentless driving" in the way it works out the logic of the plot, and he also praised all of the cast.
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