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1946 Czechoslovak war drama film

The Heroes Are Silent

Directed by	Miroslav Cikán
Written by	Vladimír Tuma
Produced by	Zdenek Reimann
Starring	Ladislav Boháč Zdeněk Dítě František Filipovský.
Cinematography	Václav Hanus
Edited by	Antonín Zelenka
Music by	Milos Smatek
Production companies	Ceskoslovenská Filmová Spolecnost Nationalfilm
Release date	4 October 1946 (1946-10-04)
Running time	70 minutes
Country	Czechoslovakia

The Heroes Are Silent (Czech: Hrdinové mlčí) is a 1946 Czechoslovak war drama film directed by Miroslav Cikán and starring Ladislav Boháč, Zdeněk Dítě and František Filipovský. The film's sets were designed by the art director Stepán Kopecký. It was one of a large number of films portraying Czech wartime resistance made in the years after the conflict had ended.

Synopsis

After his brother is killed by the German occupiers, a publisher joins the Czech resistance and destroys a railway bridge in a bid to rescue hostages from execution.

Cast

Ladislav Bohác as Vojtéch Tomek
Zdenek Díte as Jan Tomek
Frantisek Filipovský as Vilém Kolta
Josef Parízek as Vitek Dolina
Jarmila Smejkalová as Eva Matousková
Sylva Langova as Marta Vondrová
Marie Blazková as Anna Frýbová
Jindrich Plachta as učitel Josef Frýba
Vítezslav Vejrazka as Kurt Seppke
Bohus Hradil as Peitsch
Frantisek Vnoucek as Franz Wessely
Josef Kotapis as Tonda, voják na nádraží
Eman Fiala as chlubivý voják
Vladimír Hlavatý as bojovník s páskou
Vladimír Smeral as partyzán převlečený za četníka
Bedrich Vrbský as as advokát JUDr. Ladislav Kovář
Zdenek Rehor as Úredník na dráze

References

"Miroslav Cikán" (in Czech). Česko-Slovenská filmová databáze. Retrieved 11 November 2014.
Cinema in Service of the State p.248
Wohl & Păcurar p.348

Bibliography

Karl, Lars & Skopal, Pavel. Cinema in Service of the State: Perspectives on Film Culture in the GDR and Czechoslovakia, 1945–1960. Berghahn Books, 2015.
Wohl, Eugen & Păcurar, Elena. Language of the Revolution: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the "Eastern Bloc" Countries: Case Studies. Springer Nature, 2023.

External links

Hrdinové mlčí at the Internet Movie Database

v t e Films directed by Miroslav Cikán
1930s	The Mystery of the Blue Room (1933) The House in the Suburbs (1933) The Heroic Captain Korkorán (1934) U nás v Kocourkově (1934) Na Svatém Kopečku (1934) Man in Demand on All Sides (1934) Na růžích ustláno (1935) Raging Barbora (1935) Král ulice (1935) Lojzička (1936) The Comedian's Princess (1936) Poslíček lásky (1937) Děvče za výkladem (1937) Vzdušné torpédo 48 (1937) Battalion (1937) Andula Won (1937) Not a Word About Love (1937) Její pastorkyně (1938) Vandiny trampoty (1938) Svět kde se žebrá (1938) Forbidden Love (1938) Kdybych byl tátou (1939) Dobře situovaný pán (1939) V pokušení (1939) Studujeme za školou (1939) Příklady táhnou (1939) Eighteen Years Old (1939)
1940s	Finally Alone (1940) Happiness for Two (1940) Pelikán má alibi (1940) For a Friend (1940) Provdám svou ženu (1941) From the Czech Mills (1941) Karel and I (1942) U pěti veverek (1944) Veselá bída (1944) Das schwarze Schaf (1944) (as Friedrich Zittau) Glück unterwegs (1944) (as Friedrich Zittau) Paklíč (1944) The Avalanche (1946) The Heroes Are Silent (1946) Alena (1947) Matouš the Cobbler (1948) Případ Z-8 (1949)
1950s–1960	Steam Above a Pot (1950) The Struggle Will End Tomorrow (1951) A Warning (1953) Na konci města (1955) Muž v povětří (1956) Jurášek (1957) Konec cesty (1960)

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