Screenplay:
Ján MináčCinematography:
Karol KrškaComposer:
Ján ZimmerCast:
Ladislav Chudík, Naďa Hejná, Rudolf Bachlet, Eduard Bindas, Viktor Blaho, Hilda Augustovičová, Míla Beran, Ľudovít Greššo, Ján Mildner, Jozef Dóczy (more)Plots(1)
A drama from the Slovak National Uprising. In a small Slovak village a German soldier kills his friend in a fight and then spends the night with a woman in her house. The sadistic SS commandant takes ten hostages for the two lost soldiers. After the main culprit appears again, the hostages are given a cruel task - to choose five from among them, whose lives will be spared. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Cast
Ladislav Chudík
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Midnight Mass (1962)
All My Loved Ones (1999)
Henrich IV. (1987) (theatrical recording)
Naďa Hejná
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Marketa Lazarova (1967)
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Rudolf Bachlet
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Jánošík (1935)
Zemianska česť (1957)
Maroško (1968) (TV movie)
Eduard Bindas
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Jánošík I., II. (1963)
Raz, dva, tri (1985) (TV movie)
Viktor Blaho
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Lekár umierajúceho času (1983) (series)
Hernani (1967) (TV movie)
Hilda Augustovičová
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Statky zmätky (2009) (theatrical recording)
Captain Dabac (1959)
V hodine dvanástej (1958)
Míla Beran
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
Rose Tinted Dreams (1976)
Wolves' Lairs (1948)
Ľudovít Greššo
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Midnight Mass (1962)
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Ján Mildner
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Vianoce Adama Boronču (1988) (TV movie)
Jozef Dóczy
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
Louis Pasteur (1977) (TV movie)
Canarisova krvavá hviezda (1966) (TV movie)
Vilma Jamnická
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Jánošík I., II. (1963)
Kubo (1965) (TV movie)
Slávo Drozd
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Copper Tower (1970)
Hernani (1967) (TV movie)
Canarisova krvavá hviezda (1966) (TV movie)
Emil Horváth st.
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
The Millennial Bee (1983)
Ja, stará mama, Iliko a Illarion (1988) (TV movie)
Naši synovia (1975) (series)
Eva Mária Chalupová
Slovak state
Best movies:
Midnight Mass (1962)
Red Wine (1976) (TV movie)
Koniec a začiatok (1968) (TV movie)
Július Vašek
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Sváko Ragan (1976) (TV movie)
The Copper Tower (1970)
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Michal Belák
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Dvanásť nahnevaných mužov (1979) (TV movie)
Midnight Mass (1962)
The Ballad on the Seven Hanged (1968) (TV movie)
Alexander Kautnik
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Maroško (1968) (TV movie)
The Deserter and the Nomads (1968)
Dies irae (1984) (TV movie)
Ernest Pauš
Czechoslovakia
Best movies:
Jánošík I., II. (1963)
Forty-Four Mutineers (1957)
Captain Dabac (1959)
Mária Bancíková
Austria-Hungary
Best movies:
Jánošík (1935)
Jerguš Lapin (1960)
V hodine dvanástej (1958)