Higher Principle

(1960)

★ 8.2 IMDb · 22 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1960

Runtime: 105 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia

Director: Jiří Krejčík

Cast: František Smolík, Jana Brejchová, Ivan Mistrík, Jan Šmíd, Alexandr Postler, Petr Kostka, Radovan Lukavský, Václav Lohniský, Marie Lukášová, Miroslav Svoboda

Plot

During the Nazi occupation of a Czech city civilians are being rounded up on the slightest of pretexts and shot. One day three high school boys who crack jokes about a recently deceased "hero of the Reich" are pulled out of school by the Gestapo.