Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
Top Billed Cast
Miroslava Součková
Emilka Fejfarová
Oleg Tabakov
Otto Kukuck
Alicja Jachiewicz
Frida Kukuck
Míla Myslíková
Frau Kramer
Vilém Besser
Teacher
Featured Crew
Antonín Moskalyk
Director
Tadeusz Lampka
Production Manager
Jaroslav Chytrý
Set Decoration
Eduard Pergner
Book
Zdeněk Karel Slabý
Book
Roman Hladík
Assistant Production Design
Andrzej Swat
First Assistant Director
Janusz Dwornik
Set Decoration
Helena Rohanová
First Assistant Director
Lubomír Moravec
Assistant Camera
Bohumil Pokorný
Production Design
Jerzy Śnieżawski
Production Design