Oldrich is the runt of his village, beaten by his father, bullied by the other boys. But he has imagination on his side, and a wiry toughness they can’t defeat. The village is in turmoil, because the Nazi occupiers have just retreated and the Red Army is advancing. Oldrich dodges amid the mayhem and panic, taking his share of blows but always managing to stay one step ahead. Beautifully shot and darkly ironic, Karel Kachyna’s forgotten masterpiece jumbles reality, memory and fantasy to capture the intensity and confusion of childhood in a war zone.

Television film about people who are actively involved in the Slovak national uprising in 1944. A sc...

The film is based on the real fact — football «The Death Match» between the German team and a team o...

A bitter battle is fought between Australian and Japanese soldiers along the Kokoda trail in New Gui...

The movie tells the story of Franz, a Waffen-SS soldier who deserts, and Polina, a Belarusian woman ...

May 1944, a group of French servicewomen and resistance fighters are enlisted into the British Speci...

In 1942, the young Jewish girl Misha, her Russian mother Gerusha and her German father Reuven hide f...

Group of concentration camp prisoners is being constantly tortured by their Kappo. Since they are to...

As Minister of Propaganda, Joseph Goebbels creates films and pictures used to prepare the Germans fo...

British intelligence undertook an audacious operation to listen in on the private conversations of 1...

In 1943, as Hitler continues to wage war across Europe, a group of college students mount an undergr...

A couple sets up an African game preserve, only to have British and Italian armies fight over the wa...

A young Catholic priest from Boston confronts bigotry, Nazism, and his own personal conflicts as he ...

Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant ...
The story of student love in the most difficult times, because even during the Protectorate, young p...

During World War II, dogs were trained in special centres for guard duty in concentration camps. How...

During the Battle of Sutjeska, partisan troops must endure 24 hours of big and heavy attacks on Germ...

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
Based on the paradoxical life story of a small-time Viennese postman, a former classmate of the "gre...