Then I Sentenced Them All to Death

In order to avoid reprisals from the Wehrmacht for the murder of a soldier, intellectuals from a Romanian village try to convince Ipu, the village idiot, to take the blame for the murder and save everybody.

Then I Sentenced Them All to Death is a 1972 drama war movie directed by Sergiu Nicolaescu, starring Ion Besoiu, Gheorghe Dinica, Amza Pellea. It holds an IMDb rating of 8.0/10 from 1,100 votes and runs 1h 43m.