1973 · 3h 47m · History, Drama
This feature film based on the events of 1938 is a chronicle of the futile efforts of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Benes (Jirí Pleskot), politicians and ordinary citizens, to save the independence and the territorial integrity of the state from the advance of Hitler's Germany.
Director: Otakar Vávra
Writers: Miloslav Fábera, Otakar Vávra
Music by: Zdeněk Liška
Cinematography: Jaromír Šofr
Editor: Antonín Zelenka
Part of the The War Trilogy franchise.