The Coward
- Original title
- Zbabelec
- Year
- 1962
- Running time
- 98 min.
- Country
- Czechoslovakia
- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
- Music
- Cinematography
- Josef Strecha (B&W)
- Genre
- Drama. War | II World War
- Synopsis
- In this moral study of heroism set in a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans, but, at the end of his humiliation, finds the courage to save his honor and the innocent victims of the Nazis.
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