Maratón (film)
Maratón | |
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Directed by | |
Written by | Ivo Novák Jan Procházka |
Starring | Jana Brejchová Vladimír Menšík |
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Edited by | |
Music by | Zdeněk Liška |
Release date | 1968 |
Running time | 100 minutes |
Country | Czechoslovakia |
Language | Czech |
Maratón (English title The Marathon) is a 1968 Czechoslovak war film celebrating the liberation of Prague by Red Army. The film was directed by starring , Jana Brejchová, Karel Höger and Vladimír Menšík.[1]
The movie follows two separated storylines: In one, young Czech Ruda Střecha () is liberated from Pankrác gestapo prison at the beginning of the Prague uprising, 5 May 1945. He meets young servant-maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) and together they try to escape from Prague surrounded by German troops but they are inevitably drawn into the fighting.
The same day, Jarda Střecha (Vladimír Menšík) older brother of Ruda, who fights as the soldier of the 1st Czechoslovak Army Corps in Carpathian mountains hears about the uprising in Prague and is immediately transferred to Saxony. As the prewar truck driver he now becomes a guide to the 3rd Guards Tank Army of the general Rybalko (Karel Höger) and witnesses the bravery and sacrifice of Soviet soldiers in their "race to Prague".
The story culminates by the liberation of Prague on 9 May 1945.
References[]
- ^ "Maratón (1968)". Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze (in Czech). n.d. Retrieved 14 November 2014.
External links[]
- Czech-language films
- 1968 films
- Czechoslovak films
- Czech films
- Czech resistance to Nazi occupation in film
- Czech war films
- Czech World War II films
- Czechoslovak World War II films
- 1960s Czech film stubs