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Distant Journey

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Original title

Daleká cestaaka

AKA

Hitler's Inferno

Year

1949

Running time

102 min.

Country

Czechoslovakia

Director

Alfréd Radok

Screenwriter

Erik Kolár, Mojmir Drvota, Alfréd Radok

Cast

Music

Jirí Sternwald

Cinematography

Josef Strecha (B&W)

Producer

Ceskoslovenský Státní Film

Genre

Drama | Holocaust. Nazism. II World War

Synopsis

Hana is a Jewish eye doctor who falls in love and marries a Gentile named Toník. Their simple love story becomes a nightmare when the government begins the systematized extermination of the Jews. Hana's family is transported to Theresienstadt, and the romance becomes a struggle for survival.

"Too soon!" cried the censors when Czech director Alfred Radok submitted this grueling Holocaust drama only a few years after the end of World War II. As a result it was widely banned, only available in underground showings until its rediscovery four decades later. Radok combines documentary-style footage with expressionistic scenes for its devastating story of a female doctor and her gentile husband sent to the camp in Theresienstadt.

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Distant Journey

1949

Alfréd Radok

7.2

(78)