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The Island of the Silver Herons (1977)
Directed by Jaromil Jireš
Drama · 1h 15m
The late summer of 1918. Paul, Willi and Heinrich from an age-old German town are good friends, although there is a great deal that divides them. Heinrich comes from an officer's family with an army tradition and is preparing to enter cadet college. Paul's father and grandfather are workers, and Willi, left to depend on himself, works as a hotel messenger. The last year of the war is hard for everyone, but while Paul and Willi know their own minds and do not hesitate to help the war fugitives Tony and Sepp, for Heinrich everything is more complicated.
Cast
Erwin Geschonneck
Colonel von Bülow
Günter Naumann
Sepp Erdmann
Vladimír Dlouhý
Tony
M
Michal Vavruša
Heinrich von Bülow
Petr Voříšek
Paul Meyer
T
Tomáš Vacek
Willi
Heidemarie Wenzel
Hilda von Bülow
Iva Bittová
Tereza
Wolfgang Greese
Police Chief
E
Erich Mirek
Grandpa Meyer
Jaromír Joo
Jan Král
G
Gabriela Najmanová
Král's Wife
Crew
- Director
- Jaromil Jireš
- Screenplay
- František Pavlíček, Inge Heym
- Director of Photography
- Jan Čuřík
- Original Music Composer
- Luboš Fišer
- Editor
- Josef Valušiak
Details
- Original title
- Ostrov stříbrných volavek
- Release date
- 1977-01-21
- Runtime
- 1h 15m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech, German
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Germany
- Production
- DEFA-Studio für Spielfilme, Filmové studio Barrandov