16 Films & TV Shows Set In Czechia During The 1940s
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Toman
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇺🇦 Ukraine The 1940sThis fascinating historical drama looks at the life of "the Czech Schindler," Zdenek Toman, a controversial figure who was an unsavory politician and dubious entrepreneur, but also the savior of hundreds of Eastern European Jews.
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The Man with the Iron Heart
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe true story of how the architect of the Holocaust was assassinated — With the Third Reich at its peak in 1942, the Czech resistance in London plans the most ambitious military operation of WWII – Anthropoid. Two young recruits are sent to Prague to assassinate the most ruthless Nazi leader – Reinhardt Heydrich, head of the SS, the Gestapo and the architect of the Final Solution.
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Milada
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sShe fought for her country's freedom at the cost of her own. — The story of communist show-trial victim Milada Horáková. Horáková was one of the first victims of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. She opposed the communist coup in 1948 but did not leave the country. She was arrested and tried for treason on fabricated charges in a show trial that was broadcast on the radio and shown in film clips. The film focuses on the time from 1945 to 1950 when the communists took over, but also goes back a little further in Horáková's life into the late 1930s
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Anthropoid
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sResistance has a code name — In December 1941, Czech soldier Jozef Gabčík and Jan Kubiš parachute into their occupied homeland to assassinate Nazi officer Reinhard Heydrich
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The Butcher of Prague
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940s The 1930sCzechoslovakia, 1941. As the war continues, Reich Protector Reinhard Heydrich arrives in Nazi-occupied Prague and establishes a regime of terror that will force freedom fighters to act. But the price to pay will be too high…
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The Elementary School
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe time is 1945-46. 10 year old Eda and his friend Tonda live in a small village outside Prague. In school, their class is so wild and indisciplined that their teacher quits and is replaced by the militant Igor Hnidzo. He is very strict - but also very just. His weakness is his interest in young women. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
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Operation: Daybreak
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sIt was a hit and run operation with no place to run — Czechoslovakia, 1942. Three brave Czech patriots risk everything to rid their country of its brutal Nazi leader, SS-General Reinhard Heydrich.
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The Cremator
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940s The 1930sNO ONE WILL SUFFER — Mr. Kopfrkingl enjoys his job at a crematorium in Czechoslovakia in the late 1930s. He likes reading the Tibetan book of the dead, and espouses the view that cremation relieves earthly suffering.
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All My Good Countrymen
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe title "All My Good Countrymen" is not without irony as this epic tale of Czech village life from shortly after the end of the Second World War concentrates on the activities of a group of friends who are not beyond reproach in siding with a politically corrupt regime for material advancement. Are these the "good countrymen" of the title or does it refer to the rest of the village who scorn these petty authority figure with silent contempt?
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Higher Principle
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sDuring the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
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Men without Wings
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sAfter 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.
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Hangmen Also Die!
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe shot heard 'round the world! — During the Nazi occupation of Czechoslovakia, surgeon Dr. Franticek Svoboda, a Czech patriot, assassinates the brutal "Hangman of Europe", Reichsprotektor Reinhard Heydrich, and is wounded in the process. In his attempt to escape, he is helped by history professor Stephen Novotny and his daughter Mascha.
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Hitler's Madman
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sStory of the assassination of Reinhard Heydrich, Nazi SS commander, by Czech partisans and the reprisals inflicted by the Nazis on the Czechs.
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The Silent Village
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1940sThe true story of the massacre of a small Czech village by the Nazis is retold as if it happened in Wales.
