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Bookmark this pageCoach to Vienna (1966)
Director: Karel Kachyna
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From Time Out Film Guide
Set, like Kachyna's previous film, Long Live the Republic!, during the Nazi retreat from Czechoslovakia, this is a far more spartan affair, more sensible as a result, but perhaps less involving. Janzurová is a war widow captured by two German deserters and forced to drive them by cart to the border. Sullenly vengeful, she makes the most of each pit stop to squirrel away the soldiers' weapons and make ready her own, stony to the amicable advances of the fit younger German. Set entirely in a monolithic misty wood, it's filmed (in b/w) with a great sense of dank and feral atmosphere. All the same, you get the point after a while. It's the ending that delivers the real kick in the teeth: by the time the Czech partisans finally arrive on the scene they can only offer the sourest, most vicious note of spite in their own cause.Author: NB
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- michel Roy said...
- Posted on Aug 28 2009 05:18 It's a masterpiece and it' a pity we cannot see or find that film in Canada; you don't have to speak czech, german nor russian to understand and enjoy that great humanistic movie.
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Cast & crew
Director: Karel Kachyna
Cast: Iva Janzurová, Jaromír Hanzlík, Ladislav Jandos, Zdenek Jarolímek, Ludek Munzar, Ivo Niederle, Vladimír Ptácek, Jirí Zák full cast
Genre(s): War
Duration: 115 mins
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