Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (1960)

Original title

Romeo, Julie a tma

Directed by

Jiří Weiss

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 32m

Rating

6.2 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A young student hides a Jewish woman from the Gestapo during World War II. Their love develops under the constant threat of discovery.

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What happens

Romeo, Juliet and Darkness (Czech: Romeo, Julie a tma) is a 1960 Czech drama film directed by Jiří Weiss. Inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, the film is about problems experienced by a young Jewish woman who is hidden from the Gestapo by a student lover. In 1997 a TV adaptation of the same name was directed by Karel Smyczek. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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