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The Heroes Are Silent

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The Heroes Are Silent
Directed byMiroslav Cikán
Written byVladimír Tuma
Produced byZdenek Reimann
StarringLadislav Boháč
Zdeněk Dítě
František Filipovský.
CinematographyVáclav Hanus
Edited byAntonín Zelenka
Music byMilos Smatek
Production
companies
Ceskoslovenská Filmová Spolecnost
Nationalfilm
Release date
  • 4 October 1946 (1946-10-04)
Running time
70 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia

The Heroes Are Silent (Czech: Hrdinové mlčí) is a 1946 Czechoslovak war drama film directed by Miroslav Cikán and starring Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Dítě and František Filipovský.[1] [2] The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký. It was one of a large number of films portraying Czech wartime resistance made in the years after the conflict had ended.[3]

Synopsis

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After his brother is killed by the German occupiers, a publisher joins the Czech resistance and destroys a railway bridge in a bid to rescue hostages from execution.

Cast

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References

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  1. ^ "Miroslav Cikán" (in Czech). Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
  2. ^ Cinema in Service of the State p.248
  3. ^ Wohl & Păcurar p.348

Bibliography

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  • Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.
  • Wohl, Eugen & Păcurar, Elena. Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the "Eastern Bloc" Countries: Case Studies. Springer Nature, 2023.
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