Distant Journey (1949)
Daleká cesta
Prague, during World War II. Hana Kaufmann, a Jewish ophthalmologist, marries Dr. Antonín Bureš, a Christian man. When her family is sent to the Theresienstadt concentration camp, their romance turns into a struggle for survival.
- Date of release
- 1949-06-03
- TMDB
- 6.9 / 10 (21)
- Runtime
- 1h 44m
- Genres
- Drama
- Director
- Alfréd Radok
Casting
- Blanka Waleská — Hana Kaufmannová
- Otomar Krejča — Antonín Bureš
- Zdeňka Baldová — Hedvika Kaufmannová
- Viktor Očásek — Oskar Kaufmann
- Eduard Kohout — Reiter
- Anna Vaňková — Margit
- Jiří Plachý — Abrahamovič
- Saša Rašilov — Mošeles
- Zdeněk Hodr — Zdeněk Klein
- Josef Chvalina — Pepa Bureš
- J. O. Martin — Rudolf Bureš
- Soňa Danielová — Ellen
Interesting facts
Distant Journey is a Czechoslovak film about the Holocaust directed by Alfréd Radok and released in 1949, not long after World War II. Radok uses experimental cinematography, blending historic footage of the Nazis with a fictional love story between a Jewish woman and her Gentile husband.
Trivia
Footage from Distant Journey appears in Stanley Kubrick's 1971 film A Clockwork Orange. Kubrick incorporated the shots of children playing amidst rubble into his film.
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