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Higher Principle (1960) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1960 · 104 mins · Czech
- Directed by
- Jiří Krejčík
- Starring
- Zuzana Stivínová, Jan Skopeček, Rudolf Hrušínský, Petr Kostka, Luba Skořepová, Věra Tichánková
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city, civilians are rounded up on the slightest pretexts and executed. When three high‑school boys make jokes about a recently deceased “hero of the Reich,” the Gestapo removes them from school, thrusting them into the brutal reality of the regime’s terror.
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