Cuckoo in a Dark Forest

(1985)

★ 4.9 IMDb · 5 votes

Genres: Drama

Year: 1985

Runtime: 94 мин

Country: Czechoslovakia, Poland

Director: Antonín Moskalyk

Cast: Miroslava Součková, Олег Табаков, Alicja Jachiewicz, Míla Myslíková, Vilém Besser, Rafał Wieczyński, Jana Andresíková, Věra Vlčková, Jolanta Grusznic, Карел Бьелоградски

Plot

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.