Movies and TvShows featuring "czech-resistance-fighter" theme.
Based on the true story of brothers Josef and Ctirad Mašín who, in 1953, tried to escape communist Czechoslovakia to join the US army in West Berlin.
Based on a true story, Operation: Daybreak (1975) follows a group of Czech resistance fighters who are tasked with assassinating Reinhard Heydrich, one of the key architects of the Holocaust. As they carry out their mission, they face betrayal, danger, and the ultimate sacrifice.
In 1940s Czechoslovakia, a Czech resistance fighter named Eliska is forced to go into hiding in a small village called Želary. There, she assumes a new identity, working as a nurse and living a quiet life. However, her world is disrupted when she falls in love with a married man and becomes entangled in a dangerous affair. As the war rages on, Eliska must make difficult choices and navigate the complexities of love, identity, and survival.
"The Art of Dissent" celebrates the resilience and power of artistic engagement in Czechoslovakia before and after the 1968 Soviet-led invasion. The documentary's main protagonists - Václav Havel, banned singer Marta Kubisová, and the underground rock group the Plastic People of the Universe (PPU) - became the most recognizable dissidents during the 1970-80s. Havel bridged the disparate clusters of individuals and fused the literary, musical, political, and philosophical nonviolent elements into a hybrid network that eventually toppled the totalitarian regime in 1989.
The first animated picture made by Jiří Trnka for adults. It is a comic story of a legendary chimney-cleaner who, with the help of a spring from an old lounge-chair, became the terror of the Prague-occupying SS troops in World War II.
A communist journalist from Prague is sent to Ravensbruck concentration camp.
Autumn 1944. A doctor is accused in the collaboration with the Nazis and found guilty...
This film, chronicling the last days of Czech resistance fighter Maruska Kuderikova (played by Magda Vasaryova), is based on her diaries. Though she was tortured and eventually executed by the Nazis, her diaries indicate that she was optimistic for the humanity of her captors and did not by any means hate them. Told with simple dignity, this film makes clear why Maruska became a national hero.
In Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia, a resistance fighter plots the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi official. As tensions rise and the resistance movement faces challenges, the fighter must navigate through danger and betrayal to carry out their mission.
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.
The assassination of Heydrich in Prague during WWII.
Das Attentat - Heydrich in Prag (1967) is a compelling war movie set in the Czech Republic during the year 1942. The film tells the story of the brave Czech resistance fighters who plot and carry out the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, a high-ranking Nazi officer. Fueled by revenge and the desire to free their country from Nazi occupation, the resistance fighters face brutality and repression as they execute their dangerous mission. With firearms and hand grenades, they aim to strike a blow against the Nazi regime and inspire hope in the Czech people.
It is 5 May 1945 and the uprising against the hated German occupiers has broken out in Prague. The Czech guards open the gate of the Pankrác prison to allow the prisoners to escape en masse. Many of them are shot dead by the German guards but young Ruda (Jaromír Hanzlík) manages to run away. He is taken care of by one of the Prague fighters, concierge Kytka. Kytka hides him in the flat of the house's owner where only the young maid Karla (Jana Brejchová) is left, ordering her to take care of Ruda.
A gripping drama based on the true story of the Czech resistance fighters who assassinated Reinhard Heydrich, the notorious Nazi leader. The film explores the brutality of war, the sacrifices made by the resistance fighters, and the devastating consequences of their actions.
Czech friends help refugees from Nazi Germany escape in 1939.
Prague, 1920. Milena's father wants her to follow in his footsteps and be one of the first female doctors in Czechoslovakia, but she is determined to be a writer. She elopes to Vienna with the Jewish music critic Ernst Pollak, and starts a correspondence with Franz Kafka. She leaves Pollak and returns to Prague with her father, where she befriends and translates Kafka. As a journalist, Milena covers the 1923 Ruhr worker's strike and meets the communist architect Jaromir.
After an attack against the guard of the Third Reich, Nazi repression intensifies, and the Czechoslovakian resistance's organized sabotage in an aircraft factory leads to Gestapo shootings.
Jan Zika is the legendary hero of the communist resistance movement during World War II and leading functionary of the second underground Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia.
