Characters & Themes
Shadows of a Hot Summer (1978) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1978 · 100 mins · Czech
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- Directed by
- František Vláčil
- Starring
- Eliška Balzerová, Jiří Bartoška, Juraj Kukura, Jana Postlerová, Václav Babka, Vladimír Jedenáctík
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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