Slovak partisans, bravely fighting against Nazi superiority, would never have succeeded to such an extent if they had not been supported by the villagers. Despite the threat of repression, it is the villagers who care for the wounded, hide them, and behave conscientiously. Although the film was made in the late 1960s, it fully adopts the patterns of partisan stories, perhaps the only thing it can be credited with is a more developed sense of authenticity in the story, characters, and setting.

Under the USSR oppression a family breaks up and its members find themselves on opposite sides of th...

Two beautiful and different girls, Alice and Lisette are 17 years old, when forcibly removed from th...

The background to and depiction of a watershed battle in Japanese history, at Sekigahara in 1600, wh...

Paul Clark and his children are still heartbroken a year after the death of Jane, Paul's wife. When ...

The teenage hero tries his best to meet the nomination limit for important races, but his coach's in...

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This story from the time of the occupation tells how the students of the teachers' institute decided...

Professor Barbenfouillis and five of his colleagues from the Academy of Astronomy travel to the Moon...

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At a village railway station in occupied Czechoslovakia, a bumbling dispatcher’s apprentice longs to...

Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower the...

Humbert Humbert is a middle-aged British novelist who is both appalled by and attracted to the vulga...

A young couple, Rosemary and Guy, moves into an infamous New York apartment building, known by frigh...

It ain't easy bein' green -- especially if you're a likable (albeit smelly) ogre named Shrek. On a m...

Animals on a farm lead a revolution against the farmers to put their destiny in their own hands. How...

In 1947, four German judges who served on the bench during the Nazi regime face a military tribunal ...

The classic story of English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their J...

In the year 10,191, the most precious substance in the universe is the spice Melange. The spice exte...

Women enter and exit a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years after the author...

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.