Scene from the film Shadows of a Hot Summer
Scene from the film Shadows of a Hot Summer
Scene from the film Shadows of a Hot Summer
Scene from the film Shadows of a Hot Summer

Shadows of a Hot Summer

Direction
Year 
1977
Country
  • Czech Republic
Duration
100min 
Audio Tracks 
Subtitles 

Screenwriter Jiří Křižan and director František Vláčil twice joined forces to work on dramatic tales relating to the troubled post-war years. Stíny horkého léta (Shadows of a Hot Summer, 1977) takes place in 1947 in the Beskid Mountains. The pair’s latter adaptation of the Ladislav Fuchs’ novel Pasáček z doliny (The Little Herdsman from the Valley, 1983) is also set in this location. In both cases, locals’ lives are disturbed by Ukrainian nationalist paramilitaries wandering through the woods and desperately looking for an opportunity to escape west across the border. In this film, shepherd Ondřej Baran (Juraj Kukura), living at a remote sheep farm in the mountains, is forced into a deadly game of trying to protect his family while avoiding being sucked into a malevolent world. Baran’s delicate wife is played by Marta Vančurová. Jiří Bartoška plays a blond-haired pro-Stepan Bandera militant in this intense and dramatic feature film.

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Details

  • Original title
    Stíny horkého léta
  • Direction
  • Screenplay
    Jiří Křižan
  • Cast
    Juraj Kukura, Marta Vančurová, Gustáv Valach, Robert Lischke, Karel Chromík, Zdeněk Kutil, Jiří Bartoška, Augustin Kubán...
  • DOP
    Ivan Šlapeta
  • Editing
    Miroslav Hájek
  • Music
    Zdeněk Liška
  • Duration
    100 min (91+ min.)
  • Year
    1977
  • Country
    • Czech Republic
  • Colour
    • Colour
  • Distribution

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