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Nikola Šuhaj loupežník (1978)
Directed by Evžen Sokolovský
Drama
The merging of reality with legend, the image of reality (Ruthenian Verkhovyna in the 1920s) and its reflection in people's minds - this is what characterizes the story of the modern Transcarpathian bandit Nikola Šuhaj, who "took from the rich and gave to the poor". Ivan Olbracht's novel from the 1930s, one of the artistic peaks of modern Czech prose, is a dramatic story about a war deserter, his love for the beautiful Eržica, a story about revenge for wrongs, persecution, betrayal and death. Šuhaj's fate merged with legends in people's memory. By combining elements of the past and the present, document and myth, the story turned into a ballad about how eternal and strong the human dream of freedom and happiness is.
Cast
Petr Čepek
Eva Jakoubková
Josef Karlík
Tomáš Töpfer
Pavel Rímský
Josef Somr
Jaroslav Dufek
Jiří Štěpnička
Crew
- Director
- Evžen Sokolovský
- Screenplay
- Ludvík Kundera
- Novel
- Ivan Olbracht
- Director of Photography
- Vladimír Opletal
- Original Music Composer
- Zdeněk Pololáník
- Editor
- Jiří Šebelka
Details
- Release date
- 1978-03-12
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- CS
- Spoken languages
- Czech
- Countries
- Czechoslovakia
- Production
- Československá televize Praha