Lost Children (1956 film)

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Lost Children
Ztracenci.jpg
Film poster
Directed by Miloš Makovec
Written by Alois Jirásek
Jiří Brdečka
Miloš Makovec
Starring Stanislav Fišer
CinematographyVladimír Novotný
Release date
  • 1956 (1956)
Running time
85 minutes
CountryCzechoslovakia
LanguageCzech

Lost Children (Czech : Ztracenci) is a 1956 Czechoslovak historical drama anti-war film directed by Miloš Makovec and based on Jiří Brdečka's adaptation of a short story by Alois Jirásek. The film was screened in the main competition section of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival. [1]

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Plot

During a war between Austria and Prussia, three soldiers desert their units after being defeated by the Prussian army and find the shelter in a lonely farmhouse. They do not share the pacifist belief of the farmer, but they also do not want to fight anymore. After the farm house is attacked by plundering Prussian hussars, the three soldiers decide to fight and eventually die, not for glory or money or their empress, but for innocent people. [2]

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References

  1. "Festival de Cannes: Lost Children". festival-cannes.com. Retrieved 9 February 2009.
  2. "Ztracenci - další Jirásek – tentokrát neznámý" [The Losers - another Jirásek's work - this time less known]. Kino (in Czech). (republished by Film a video). 20. 1956. Archived from the original on 31 March 2017. Retrieved 30 March 2017.