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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)

Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)

Drama
Release Date: 1985, May 1
Directors: Antonín Moskalyk
Countries: Poland, Czechoslovakia
Production: PRF "Zespoły Filmowe", PRF "Zespoły Filmowe", Filmové studio Barrandov, Filmové studio Barrandov
Cast: Ivo Niederle, Rudolf Pellar, Bohumil Švarc, Joachim Lamża, Alicja Jachiewicz, Pavel Trávníček, Karel Bělohradský, Petr Kostka, Igor Kujawski, Pavel Zedníček, Jolanta Grusznic, Oleg Tabakov

Overview:

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.

Keywords:

based on novel or book world war ii