The Night Overtake Me

35 mmOR15
Director:Juraj Herz
Premiere:1. May 1986
Length:130 minutes
Genre:Drama, Životopisný, Vojnový

The Night Overtake Me

Zastihla mě noc; Juraj Herz, 1985, versions: OR,

100 rokov slovenského filmu / Režisér Juraj Herz

Director: Juraj Herz • Scenario: Juraj Herz, Jaromíra Kolárová • Kameraman: Viktor Růžička • Actors: Jana Riháková, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Kateřina Urbancová, Dagmar Veškrnová, Sylvia Turbová

The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck concentration camp is the focus of this wartime drama starring Jana Rihakova as the tragic Jaburkova. Suffering almost from the beginning as an illegitimate child burdened with extreme moral expectations by her fanatically religious mother, Jaburkova suffered at the hands of the teachers and authorities in her all girls' school. Her sympathy for the oppressed or those experiencing unjust hardship or discrimination got her into trouble again and again, both as a student and when she went on to seek employment. As the camera focuses on scenes in the concentration camp, Jaburkova's memories of her past are shown in flashbacks.

Length: 130 min

Year: 1985
Local premiere date: 1. May 1986

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version

100 rokov slovenského filmu / Režisér Juraj Herz

Director: Juraj Herz • Scenario: Juraj Herz, Jaromíra Kolárová • Kameraman: Viktor Růžička • Actors: Jana Riháková, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Hrušínský, Kateřina Urbancová, Dagmar Veškrnová, Sylvia Turbová

The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck concentration camp is the focus of this wartime drama starring Jana Rihakova as the tragic Jaburkova. Suffering almost from the beginning as an illegitimate child burdened with extreme moral expectations by her fanatically religious mother, Jaburkova suffered at the hands of the teachers and authorities in her all girls' school. Her sympathy for the oppressed or those experiencing unjust hardship or discrimination got her into trouble again and again, both as a student and when she went on to seek employment. As the camera focuses on scenes in the concentration camp, Jaburkova's memories of her past are shown in flashbacks.

Year: 1985
Local premiere date: 1. May 1986

Country of origin:

  • Czechoslovakia

Language version:

OR - Original version