Looking for the name of a film. It's very bleak set around time of arch duke ferdinands ination. Ideas?

The stand out scenes I remember is a doctor getting a reprieve on the gallows moments before execution because he is a medic and thus useful. Up to this point he has been kept in a dank damp prison. I also vaguely remember some nude bodies hanging from a tree but I saw the film a long long time ago so my memory could be playing tricks!