I, Justice

I, Justice (1968)

Já, spravedlnost

At the year 1946, the time of the Nuremberg Process. One of the main actors of the Second World War, who reportedly committed suicide, Adolf Hitler is, however, missing. The Czech doctor Herman (Karel Höger) is kidnapped from Prague and driven to the sanatorium of Professor Rolf Harting (Jirí Vrstála). The sanatorium is a disguised military stronghold, most probably occupied by a Nazi garrison, with prison cells and an execution chamber in the basement. At night, Herman is taken to a patient in whom he, to his horror, recognizes Hitler (Fritz Diez).

Date of release
1968-04-12
TMDB
6.4 / 10 (5)
Runtime
1h 28m
Genres
Thriller, Drama
Director
Zbyněk Brynych

Casting

Interesting facts

I, Justice is a 1968 Czechoslovak psychological thriller, directed by Zbyněk Brynych.

Production

The film's script was based on the eponymous novel by Miroslav Hanuš, published at 1946.

Hanuš' book was criticized for what critics perceived to be a superficial treatment of the moral questions raised by the crimes of Nazism.

The film adaptation was director Brynych's third work concerned with the atrocities committed during World War II, after the 1962 Transport From Paradise - which dealt with the life in the Theresienstadt concentration camp, and was adapted from Arnošt Lustig's autobiographical novel, Night and Hope - and the 1964 The Fifth Horseman is Fear, about a Jewish doctor in German-occupied Prague.

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