110 mins/1998

    1943. German-occupied Czechoslovakia. Jura Baran, a farmer wanted by the Gestapo, escapes from his home in the poor mountainous Walachian region to go into hiding in Lakotice village, left untouched by the Germans.

    There are twelve rich estates around the village. The landowners live in fear of Sekal, an embittered, cruel, young man, who is out to avenge the insults and rejection he has had to face all his life because he was the illegitimate son of one of the landlords. He denounces two land owners to the Germans and gets their property while they are sent to death camps. The village bastard has arrived and makes it clear that the wealth of two farms is not enough.

    Fearing the loss of life and property, the farmers resolve to kill Sekal but cannot muster up the courage to do so. When Jura arrives, they force him to carry out the task under threat of exposure to the Gestapo...

 
Credits:-

Directed by Vladimir Michalek

Cast:

Boguslaw Linda (Sekal), Olaf Lubaszenko (Jura), Jiri Bartoska (Father Flora), Agnieszka Sitek (Anezka), Vlasta Chramostova (Marie)

    Vladimir Michalek, graduated from FAMU in Prague and worked with several internationally known directors like Margareta von Trotta, Reinhard Hauff and Ted Kotchef, while simultaneously making documentary films. He has been directing his own feature films since 1989, notably America (1994) and Forgotten Light (1996) which have won several awards.