Zastihla ma noc

original title:
Zastihla ma noc
other titles:
I Was Caught in the Night
country / year of production:
Czechoslovakia / 1985
original length:
130 min. , color
premiere:
Mai 1986
genre:
melodrama
based on:
director:
Juraj Herz
film script:
Juraj Herz , Jaromíra Kolárová
producer:
cinematographer:
Viktor Ruzicka
editor:
Jaromír Janácek
composer:
Michael Kocáb
cast (role):
Jana Riháková (Jozka Jaburková) , Jana Brejchová (Jozka's mother) , Andrea Bogusovska (Zdena) , Hana Brejchová (Bozka) , Jana Svobodová (Mirka) , Jana Riháková , Jana Brejchová , Andrea Bogusovska , Hana Brejchová , Jana Svobodová
more:
plot synopsis:
The story of the communist reporter Jozka Jaburková who was tortured to death in the Ravenbrück concentration camp. The movie is a mosaic of her fragmentary memories while locked up in a concrete cell shortly before her death.
keywords:
Holocaust , concentration camps , communism
war:
Second World War (1939-1945)
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