Three boys. One joke. The Gestapo doesn't laugh.
During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.
Acting
Smolík's trembling restraint as Professor Málek breaks you.
Direction
Krejčík turns a classroom into a pressure cooker of dread.
Writing
Dialogue so ordinary it becomes unbearable.
Director
Jiří Krejčík
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
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