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Judith is a 1966 film. It was directed by Daniel Mann and the writing credits are given to Lawrence Durrell and John Michael Hayes.

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The story is set in Palestine shortly before the end of the British mandate. The Haganah has learnt that a former German tank commander, General Gustav Schiller (Hans Verner), is teaching the Arabs battle tactics, but they are unable to locate him. Then they learn of the existence of his Jewish former wife, Judith Auerbach Schiller (Sophia Loren), and arrange for her to be smuggled into Palestine via the port of Haifa. She is placed in the care of Aaron Stein (Peter Finch), a Haganah commander, at a Kibbutz.

It transpires that Schiller abandoned his wife during the War and took away their son. She was then sent to Dachau were she was forced to serve in an officers brothel, but survived.

Judith does not take kindly to the rigours of kibbutz life, and is unable to tell them anything about Schiller, but Stein hopes that she can at least identify him. He "suggests" that she ask the local army commander, Major Lawton (Jack Hawkins), to help her. Judith travels to Haifa to see him and pleads with him to hand over the file on Schiller - which he eventually does. It turns out that Schiller was last known to be in Damascus, Syria.

Judith, Stein and a colleague are smuggled into Damascus and after days of searching, they find Schiller. As they are about to capture him, Judith shoots and wounds him.

The wounded Schiller is smuggled back to Palestine and interrogated, but he refuses to give any information. Left alone with Judith, he pleads for mercy. But as the kibbutz comes under attack by Arab forces, he finally reveals the battle plans, and also tells Judith that he knows the whereabouts of their son.

The room in which he is being kept is bombed and Schiller is killed.

Supporting roles include Frank Wolff as Eli, Shraga Friedman as Nathan, André Morell as Haim, Zaharira Harifai as Dr. Rachel, Terence Alexander as Lieutenant Carstairs (who is particulaly attentive to Judith's legs) and Daniel Ocko as the Arab Guide in Damascus.

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