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Romeo, Juliet and Darkness
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Wikipedia article
'Romeo, Juliet and Darkness' is a 1960 Czech drama film directed by Ji Weiss. Inspired by William Shakespeare's 'Romeo and Juliet',Howard, Tony "Shakespeare's Cinematic Offshoots" in Shaughnessy, Robert (ed.) "The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Popular Culture" (Cambridge University Press, 2007, ) p.297 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.
Cast
*Ivan Mistrk as Pavel
*Daniela Smutn as Hanka
*Jiina ejbalov as Pavel's mother
*Frantiek Smolk as Grandfather
*Blanka Bohdanov as Kubiasov
*Eva Mrzov as Alena
*Karla Chadimov as Josefka
*Miroslav Svoboda as Wrm
Plot
In Nazi-occupied Prague in May 1942, Pavel (Ivan Mistrk) hides the young Jew Hanka (Daniela Smutn) to keep her from being sent to a concentration camp. Over the following three weeks the two fall in love. But when Hanka is discovered and Pavel is threatened, she flees into the streets in the middle of Operation Anthropoidthe Czech government-in-exile's plot to assassinate Reinhard Heydrichand is killed.
Reception
'Romeo, Juliet, and Darkness' won the Golden Seashell at the 1960 San Sebastian International Film Festival. It also won the Grand Prix at the 1960 Taormina International Film Festival.
Notes
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