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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness(Movie, 1960)

Original title: "Romeo, Julie a tma" (Czech/CS)
1h 32min | Genres: Drama, War
Romeo, Juliet and DarknessRating: 3.3/5 (with 88 votes)
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. ()
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About Romeo, Juliet and Darkness

Pavel, a young student living in Prague in 1942, hides a Jewish girl in his apartment building's attic. Amidst the brutality of the occupying German army, love blossoms between the two. He is her only link to the outside world. Then the two are discovered by Pavel's mother, who forces the residents of the apartment building to decide whether Hana can remain.

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Additional Information

Production country: Czechoslovakia
Plays in: Prague
Based on: "Romeo, Juliet and Darkness" (find it on Amazon)
Original language: Czech (CS)
Spoken languages: Czech (CS)
Translated into 9 languages: Bulgarian (BG), Czech (CS), English (EN), Spanish (ES), Italian (IT), Polish (PL), Portuguese (PT), Russian (RU), Swedish (SV)
Status: Released
Release date DE: 04/15/1960
Cast: Ivan Mistrík, František Smolík, Jiřina Šejbalová, Blanka Bohdanová, Karla Chadimová, Vladimír Ráž, Miloš Nedbal, Václav Lohniský, Jiří Kodet, Marie Marešová, Věra Tichánková, Ladislav Mrkvička, Jan Skopeček, Václav Sloup, Eliška Poznerová, Alexandra Myšková, Anna Melíšková, Miroslav Svoboda, Ivo Gübel, Daniela Smutná, Ladislav Kazda, Zuzana Fišárková, Jindřich Narenta, Stanislav Langer, Ladislav Gzela, Josef Kozák, Rudolf Princ
Director: Jiří Weiss
Film Editor: Miroslav Hájek
Director of Photography: Václav Hanuš
Composer: Jiří Srnka
Production Designer: Karel Škvor

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WatchPlayStream ID: MOVIES:267126, Added: 05/08/2018, Last updated: 03/15/2024