Shadows of a Hot Summer

35 mmOR12
Director:František Vláčil
Length:100 minutes
Genre:Drama

Shadows of a Hot Summer

Stíny horkého léta; František Vláčil, 1977, versions: OR, languages: ces

Výročia 100: František Vláčil

Director: František Vláčil • Scenario: Jiří Křižan • Actors: Juraj Kukura, Marta Vančurová, Gustáv Valach, Robert Lischke, Karel Chromík, Zdeněk Kutil, Jiří Bartoška

"The Bender Gang" is a group composed of Ukrainians and others, who fought under the Germans during World War II. In this story, five men from the gang are attempting to make it to the border of Austria before Czechoslovakia accepts communist rule in the summer of 1947. They wind up hiding out in a remote village near the border, holding a farmer and his family hostage. At first the farmer tries to comply with their wishes, in order to save his wife and children. He goes so far as to kidnap the town's doctor to treat one of the group's wounded. When he fully understands the gang's ruthlessness and deceitfulness, he realizes that the only way for anyone he cares about to survive is for him to kill all five of the unmerciful men in whatever way he can.

Length: 100 min

Year: 1977

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech)

Výročia 100: František Vláčil

Director: František Vláčil • Scenario: Jiří Křižan • Actors: Juraj Kukura, Marta Vančurová, Gustáv Valach, Robert Lischke, Karel Chromík, Zdeněk Kutil, Jiří Bartoška

"The Bender Gang" is a group composed of Ukrainians and others, who fought under the Germans during World War II. In this story, five men from the gang are attempting to make it to the border of Austria before Czechoslovakia accepts communist rule in the summer of 1947. They wind up hiding out in a remote village near the border, holding a farmer and his family hostage. At first the farmer tries to comply with their wishes, in order to save his wife and children. He goes so far as to kidnap the town's doctor to treat one of the group's wounded. When he fully understands the gang's ruthlessness and deceitfulness, he realizes that the only way for anyone he cares about to survive is for him to kill all five of the unmerciful men in whatever way he can.

Year: 1977

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version (czech)