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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest (1985)
Directed by Antonín Moskalyk
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.
Length 94 minutes
Actors
Miroslava Soucková | Oleg Tabakov | Alicja Jachiewicz | Míla Myslíková | Vilém Besser | Rafał Wieczyński | Jana Andresíková | Věra Vlčková | Jolanta Grusznic | Karel Belohradský | Pavel Trávníček | Zdeněk Martínek | Lena Birková | Vlasta Peterková | Jaroslava Tichá | Alena Karešová | Adolf Filip | Miroslav Grác | Zbigniew Bartoszek | Henryk Hunko | Igor Kujawski | Sylwester Maciejewski | Józef Kaczyński | Kazimierz Wysota | Adam Baumann | Irena Laskowska | Joachim Lamża | Ferdynand Matysik | Mikuláš Hořánek | Radek Krčil | Barbora Lukesová | 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 Sequensová | Petr Kostka | Věra Galatíková | Rudolf Pellar | Oldřich Vízner | Boris Rösner | Pavel Zedníček | Bohumil Švarc st. | Ivo Niederle | Leos Kaltofen