Lost Children (1956 film)

Lost Children
Lost Children
	Film poster
Directed by	Miloš Makovec
Written by	Alois Jirásek; Jiří Brdečka; Miloš Makovec
Starring	Stanislav Fišer
Cinematography	Vladimír Novotný
Release date	1956;
Running time	85 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia
Language	Czech

Lost Children (Czech: Ztracenci) is a 1956 Czechoslovak historical drama anti-war film directed by Miloš Makovec and based on Jiří Brdečka's adaptation of a short story by Alois Jirásek. The film was screened in the main competition section of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival.^[1]

Plot

During a war between Austria and Prussia, three soldiers desert their units after being defeated by the Prussian army and find the shelter in a lonely farmhouse. They do not share the pacifist belief of the farmer, but they also do not want to fight anymore. After the farm house is attacked by plundering Prussian hussars, the three soldiers decide to fight and eventually die, not for glory or money or their empress, but for innocent people.^[2]

Cast

References

^ "Festival de Cannes: Lost Children". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
^ "Ztracenci - další Jirásek – tentokrát neznámý" [The Losers - another Jirásek's work - this time less known]. Kino (in Czech). 20. (republished by Film a video). 1956. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

External links

Lost Children at IMDb

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[festival-cannes.com-1] "Festival de Cannes: Lost Children". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 February 2009.

[Film_a_video-2] "Ztracenci - další Jirásek – tentokrát neznámý" [The Losers - another Jirásek's work - this time less known]. Kino (in Czech). 20. (republished by Film a video). 1956. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.

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