Shadows of a Hot Summer

Year: 1978

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: Czech

Director: František Vláčil

Drama

Set in 1947, the film follows Bender’s band as they retreat from a hard‑won clash with the Nazis and scramble across war‑torn Czechoslovakia toward the safety of Austria. Emerging from a forest, they seize a rural family’s estate, holding the residents hostage and abducting local doctors in a desperate effort to treat a seriously injured comrade.

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