Shadows of a Hot Summer

Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978)

September 15th, 19781h 40min

Drama
64%

Overview

The story of 1947, when Bender's band, after a beating of the Nazis, tried to fight their way through Czechoslovakia to Austria. They come out of the forest to occupy the family's rural estate, kidnap doctors to help heal one of their wounded.


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