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Wartime events from a child's perspective were a popular theme during the previous regime - here it is a twelve-year-old village boy who experiences dangerous situations with retreating Nazi troops in picturesque South Bohemia... Any attempt to achieve a more believable depiction is destroyed by the staging's grandeur, and in the end the result is an awkward piece, suitable at most for celebrating the relevant national holidays. A longer copy with a tragic ending is stored in the NFA. Milda is shot unnoticed by an SS major.

Director: Antonín Máša

Cast: Igor Nachtigal, Václav Babka, Jiřina Třebická, Josef Kemr, Lenka Kořínková, Přemysl Houžvička, Roman Čada, Josef Somr

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