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Death Is Called Engelchen (1963)

Death Is Called Engelchen poster
Original title
Smrt si říká Engelchen
Directed by
Elmar Klos, Ján Kadár
Genre
drama film, war film
Country
Czechoslovakia
Runtime
1h 51m
Rating
6.4 of 10 from 9 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A war film set in Czechoslovakia during World War Two. The story follows a wounded partisan hiding in a small village and the people who help him.

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What happens

Death Is Called Engelchen (Slovak: Smrt sa volá Engelchen) is a 1963 Czechoslovak war film directed by Ján Kadár and Elmar Klos. It was entered into the 3rd Moscow International Film Festival where it won a Golden Prize. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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