Czechoslovakia,
1953, 99 min
Directed by:
Miroslav CikánScreenplay:
Marie MajerováCinematography:
Jan RothComposer:
E. F. BurianCast:
Jiří Dohnal, Josef Mixa, Vladimír Petruška, Zdeněk Kryzánek, Vladimír Šmeral, Oldřich Lukeš, Marie Vášová, Jan Pilař, Jiří Sovák, Karel Richter, Stanislav Bruder, Bohuš Rendl, Květa Fialová (more)Reviews (1)
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An imperialist flick in all its glory! The opening bombardment and subsequent expulsion of the Wehrmacht, the spectacular rallying of the valiant men, the blonde femme fatale on the side of the evil whose center is in Geneva, and the thrilling game of seeing if the subversive action can be eliminated, right up to the last minutes. All of this is set in an ideological manure dump where history has twisted itself until its neck is broken, and all of it ended with the most ingenious possible exclamation point in the form of the most memorable speech Czech history can remember: "I've just returned from the Castle..." ()