Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Czech: Romeo, Julie a tma) is a 1960 Czech drama film directed by Jiří Weiss. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet,^[1] the film is about problems experienced by a young Jewish woman who is hidden from the Gestapo by a student lover. In 1997 a TV adaptation of the same name was directed by Karel Smyczek.

Cast[]

• Ivan Mistrík as Pavel
• as Hanka
• Jiřina Šejbalová as Pavel's mother
• František Smolík as Grandfather
• Blanka Bohdanová as Kubiasová
• as Alena
• as Josefka
• as Würm

Plot[]

In Nazi-occupied Prague in May 1942, Pavel (Ivan Mistrík) hides the young Jew Hanka () to keep her from being sent to a concentration camp. Over the following three weeks the two fall in love. But when Hanka is discovered and Pavel is threatened, she flees into the streets in the middle of Operation Anthropoid—the Czech government-in-exile's plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich—and is killed.

Reception[]

Romeo, Juliet, and Darkness won the Golden Seashell at the 1960 San Sebastian International Film Festival. It also won the Grand Prix at the 1960 Taormina International Film Festival.

Notes[]

External links[]

• Romeo, Julie a tma at IMDb

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