Adelheid (1969)

Directed by

František Vláčil

Genre

tragedy, drama film, war film, psychological film

Country

Czechoslovakia

Runtime

1h 39m

Rating

6.9 of 10 from 22 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A Czech man returns to his family home after World War II and finds a German woman living there. Their uneasy relationship reflects the wider tensions between Czechs and Germans in postwar Czechoslovakia.

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What happens

Adelheid is a 1970 Czechoslovak drama film directed by František Vláčil, based on a 1967 novel of the same name by Czech writer Vladimír Körner. The story is about the complicated relationship between Czech man Viktor and German woman Adelheid, and about relationships between Czechs and Germans in postwar Czechoslovakia in general. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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