Daleká cesta (1949)

Daleká cesta: Directed by Alfréd Radok. With Blanka Waleská, Otomar Krejca, Viktor Ocásek, Zdenka Baldová. The terrible effect of the Nazis upon a single Jewish family provides the basis for this drama. The family cannot handle the strain and gradually breaks up. Interspliced within the film are newsreel clips of angry crowds, and scenes of horror.

“One of the first films about the Holocaust, this is set in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt (modern Terezin) about a marriage between a Jewish woman and a Czech gentile but with truly impressive filmic style which was much admired by Alain Resnais who reflected it in his u0026#39;Night and Fogu0026#39;. There are parallels here with Lanzmanu0026#39;s u0026#39;Un Vivant Qui Passeu0026#39; also about Theresienstadt and Maetzigu0026#39;s German near contemporary film u0026#39;Ehe im Schattenu0026#39; (marriage in the shadows) about a similar marriage. Alfred Radok is one of the great lost directors – part of the famous Laterna Magika of Prague – he was the victim not just of the Nazis but of the Communists.”