full-length films

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václav marhoul [1960]
›‹ 2008: tobruk
›‹ 2003: mazaný filip
TOBRUK TOBRUK
cz–sk ›‹ 2008 ›‹ 35 mm ›‹ col. ›‹ 102 min.
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Václav Marhoul
Václav Marhoul
Vladimír Smutný
Richard Horowitz, Sussan Deyhim
Luděk Hudec
Jan Meduna, Petr Vaněk, Robert
Nebřenský, Matěj Hádek, Andrej Polák
Václav Marhoul [cz]
Silver Screen, s.r.o. [cz], Česká
televize [cz], Free-Cool-In [sk]
September 2008 [sk]
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Intramovies
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www.tobruk.cz
Slovak Films 08 - 10 (Slovak Film Institute © 2010) updated: April 2010
›full-length films‹
The Second World War, autumn 1941. Soldiers from the 11 th Eastern Czechoslovak Battalion are sent to the Libyan town of Tobruk, besieged by Germans and Italians. Among
them is the young soldier Jiří Pospíchal. His naive ideas about heroism are starkly confronted with the hell of the African desert, complicated relationships in his unit and
the ubiquitous threat of death. All this takes its cruel toll in the shape of his gradual
loss of self-respect and courage.
The plot of the film is freely based on the classic American novel “The Red Badge of
Courage” by Stephen Crane, first published in New York in 1897.
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