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Cuckoo in a Dark Forest

  • May 1985
  • 1hr

    34mins

  • Drama
  • Directed by

    Antonín Moskalyk,

    Starring

    Miroslava Součková,

    Oleg Tabakov,

    Alicja Jachiewicz,

    Míla Myslíková

    ...

    Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.