Summary In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Soviet parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-German partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Germans. View more details
Directed : Jirí Weiss
Written : Jirí Weiss Ivan Bukovcan Ota Ornest
Stars : Oleg Strizhenov Daniela Smutná Wilhelm Koch-Hooge Ladislav Chudík
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Apr 12, 1962
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
Production companies : Filmové studio Barrandov
Summary In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Soviet parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-German partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Germans. View more details
Genres : Drama War
Release date : Apr 12, 1962
Countries of origin : Czechoslovakia
Language : Czech
Production companies : Filmové studio Barrandov
