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Film / 1985
Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
Directed by
Antonín Moskalyk
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.
The story
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.
Cast
Miroslava SoučkováEmilka Fejfarová
Oleg TabakovOtto Kukuck
Alicja JachiewiczFrida Kukuck
Míla MyslíkováFrau Kramer
Vilém BesserTeacher
Rafał WieczyńskiStaszek
Jana AndresíkováFrau Höpfner
Věra VlčkováFrau Melnik
Jolanta GrusznicWanda
Karel BělohradskýKukuck's Driver
Pavel TrávníčekKrumey
Zdeněk Martínek
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Lena Birková
Vlasta Peterková
Jaroslava Tichá
Alena Karešová
Adolf Filip
Miroslav Grác
Zbigniew Bartoszek
Henryk Hunko
Igor KujawskiPrisoner No. 16710
Sylwester MaciejewskiKnopke
Józef Kaczyński
Kazimierz Wysota
Adam Baumann
Irena Laskowska
Joachim LamżaAccordion Player
Ferdynand Matysik
Mikuláš Hořánek
Radek Krčil
Barbara Lukešová
Monika Nosková
Pavel Myslík
Jan Novák
Zdeněk Novotný
Miloslav Šindler
Jan Trávníček
Martin Trávníček
Ondřej Trávníček
Dalibor Vachulka
Martin Bláha
Lubor Kallus
Andrzej Bielski
Mieczysław Janowski
Jerzy Pieszka
Jiří Ployhar
Sylva SequensováEmilka Fejfarová (voice)
Petr KostkaOtto Kukuck (voice)
Věra GalatíkováFrida Kukuck (voice)
Rudolf PellarKrumey (voice)
Oldřich VíznerPrisoner No. 16710
Boris RösnerKnopke (voice)
Pavel ZedníčekAccordion Player (voice)
Bohumil ŠvarcCommisioner (voice)
Ivo NiederleCommisioner (voice)
Leoš KaltofenCommisioner (voice)
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