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The Coward (1962)
Directed by Jiří Weiss
Drama, War · 1h 38m
In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
Cast
Ladislav Chudík
Dana Smutná
Dušan Blaškovič
František Dibarbora
Oleg Strizhenov
Wilhelm Koch-Hooge
Jindřich Narenta
Věra Tichánková
Crew
- Director
- Jiří Weiss
- Screenplay
- Jiří Weiss, Ota Ornest
- Director of Photography
- Josef Střecha
- Original Music Composer
- Jiří Srnka
- Editor
- Miroslav Hájek
Details
- Original title
- Zbabělec
- Release date
- 1962-04-13
- Runtime
- 1h 38m
- Genres
- Drama, War
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Filmové studio Barrandov