He Who Must Die

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.

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 leftwing 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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