39 Films & TV Shows Set In Czechia During The 20th Century
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Loves of a Blonde
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1960sAndula, an innocent Czech girl from a factory town, is desperately in search of love. She believes she's found it when she beds Milda, a charming young musician visiting from Prague. Milda, however, is only looking for a casual encounter, and leaves town assuming he'll never see Andula again. But when Andula doesn't hear from him, she packs up and heads to Prague, to the surprise of Milda and his parents.
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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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Man on a Tightrope
🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany The 20th CenturyIt's true! The stranger-than-fiction story that screams with SUSPENSE! — Elia Kazan's 1953 film stars Fredric March as the owner of an impoverished circus in Communist-ruled Czechoslovokia who plots to flee across the border to freedom, taking his entire troupe of performers and wild animals with him. The cast also includes Gloria Grahame, Terry Moore, Cameron Mitchell, Richard Boone and Adolphe Menjou.
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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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Lake Placid Serenade
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1930sGlittering with gay musical scenes! Glistening with brilliant spectacles! Gleaming with romantic gaiety! — On a peaceful, pre-war winter in Czechoslovakia, the genial godfather, Jaroslav Haschek, of Vera Hascheck, presents the young girl with her first pair of ice skates. Soon, she astonished the warm-hearted people of her village with her skill, and she is acclaimed a marvel-on-ice.
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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.
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So Ends Our Night
🇫🇷 France 🇦🇹 Austria 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇨🇭 Switzerland The 1930sTwo thrilling Romances in a story of high Adventure! — An anti-Nazi on the run and a young Jewish couple race across Europe trying to escape Hitler's ever powerful influence.
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Night Train to Munich
England 🇨🇿 Czechia 🇩🇪 Germany The 1930sLaughs! Thrills! Excitement! — Czechoslovakia, March 1939, on the eve of World War II. As the German invaders occupy Prague, inventor Axel Bomasch manages to flee and reach England; but those who need to put his knowledge at the service of the Nazi war machine, in order to carry out their evil plans of destruction, will stop at nothing to capture him.
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Four Sons
🇨🇿 Czechia The 1930sFour Sons is a 1940 film directed by Archie Mayo. It stars Don Ameche and Eugenie Leontovich. It is a remake of the 1928 film of the same name.