The Heroes Are Silent
| The Heroes Are Silent | |
|---|---|
| Hrdinové mlčí | |
| Directed by | Miroslav Cikán |
| Written by | Vladimír Tůma |
| Produced by | Zdeněk Reimann |
| Starring | Ladislav Boháč Zdeněk Dítě František Filipovský. |
| Cinematography | Václav Hanuš |
| Edited by | Antonín Zelenka |
| Music by | Miloš Smatek |
Production companies | Československá filmová společnost Nationalfilm |
Release date |
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Running time | 70 minutes |
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
The Heroes Are Silent (Czech: Hrdinové mlčí) is a 1946 Czechoslovak war drama film directed by Miroslav Cikán and starring Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Dítě and František Filipovský.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Štěpán Kopecký. It was one of a large number of films portraying Czech wartime resistance made in the years after the conflict had ended.[3]
Synopsis
After his brother is killed by the German occupiers, a publisher joins the Czech resistance and destroys a railway bridge in a bid to rescue hostages from execution.
Cast
- Ladislav Boháč as Vojtéch Tomek
- Zdeněk Dítě as Jan Tomek
- František Filipovský as Vilém Kolta
- Josef Pařízek as Vítek Dolina
- Jarmila Smejkalová as Eva Matoušková
- Sylva Langová as Marta Vondrová
- Marie Blažková as Anna Frýbová
- Jindřich Plachta as teacher Josef Frýba
- Vítězslav Vejražka as Kurt Seppke
- Bohuš Hradil as Peitsch
- František Vnouček as Franz Wessely
- Josef Kotapiš as Tonda, soldier at a train station
- Eman Fiala as a boastful soldier
- Vladimír Hlavatý as a fighter with a ribbon
- Vladimír Šmeral as a partisan disguised as a gendarme
- Bedřich Vrbský as lawyer Ladislav Kovář
- Zdeněk Řehoř as a railway clerk
References
- ^ "Miroslav Cikán" (in Czech). Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
- ^ Cinema in Service of the State p.248
- ^ Wohl & Păcurar p.348
Bibliography
- Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.
- Wohl, Eugen & Păcurar, Elena. Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the "Eastern Bloc" Countries: Case Studies. Springer Nature, 2023.
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