Themes: Life Under Occupation, Crimes Against Humanity
Main Cast: Tom Courtenay, Brigitte Fossey, Ingrid Held, Freddie Jones, Linda Jablonska
Release Year: 1991
Country: UK/FR/CS
Run Time: 110 minutes
Plot
Karel Kachyna and Ota Hofman adapted Michael Jacot's novel for this drama of a mime artist in Nazi-occupied Paris who is forced to put on a show for Red Cross observers in the Nazis' model "city of the Jews," Terezin, Czechoslovakia. ~ Nicole Gagne, All Movie Guide
Josef Kemr - Stadler; Milan Knazko - Gruber; Ludek Kopriva - Laub; Rudolf Pellar - Leroux; Jiri Lir - Steiner; Jitka Molavcova - Gruber's Secretary; Jiri Malek - Otto; Josef Laufer - Petersen
Credit
Ester Krumbachova - Costume Designer, Karel Kachyna - Director, Jiri Brozek - Editor, Alex North - Composer (Music Score), Zbynek Hloch - Production Designer, Jiri Krejcik, Jr. - Cinematographer, Steven North - Producer, Ota Hofman - Screenwriter, Karel Kachyna - Screenwriter, Michael Jacot - Book Author