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This is a dramatic story about two beautiful young women in the cruel and dangerous days of the Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia during the Second World War. Tania and Hana expect life to treat them only to good and beautiful things. There is a war on, but elsewhere; and they dream about a career in films, about fame and riches. However, when they discover that their husbands are helping paratroopers sent over from Britain, they insist on participating in whatever is going on. Perhaps they feel like heroines in a thriller. Moreover, Alfréd Bartoš, the leader of the clandestine intelligence operation, is a handsome young man who appreciates beautiful women. But the resistance movement and the Gestapo – that is not just some exciting game and as soon as the Germans find the first clues to the paratroopers, the situation comes to a head very swiftly. The circle tightens round them, they should all disappear, but it is too late. What follows are arrests, interrogation, torture and finally executions.
HD upscale | 73´, 77´ | © 2007
director(s): Jiří Strach
producer(s): Czech Television
scriptwriter(s): Lucie Konášová, Josef Konáš
director of photography: Martin Šec, Michal Vojkuvka
cast: Tatiana Vilhelmová, Klára Issová, Jiří Dvořák, Ivan Trojan, David Švehlík, Viktor Preiss, Matěj Hádek, Aleš Háma and others
rights available: TV, Video, Internet
original language: Czech
subtitles available: English (part 1)