The Bells Toll for the Barefooted
(1965)
★ 7 IMDb · 6 votes
Year: 1965
Runtime: 96 мин
Country: Czechoslovakia
Director: Stanislav Barabáš
Cast: Vlado Müller, Ivan Rajniak, Axel Dietrich, Ewa Krzyżewska, Radovan Lukavský, Jozef Sorok, Pavol Benca, Hans Brückner, Anton Drobný, Pavel Feigler
Plot
A dramatic story from the end of WW II and a remarkable contemplation of the value of true friendship, meaning and purpose oflife or the possibility to be humane even in inhuma ne conditions. In a frosty mountain setting a cruel struggle for life takes place. After a fight, two partisans return to their brigade carrying along a young German soldier as a captive. But suddenly, amidst the hopelessness of barren mountains. all protagonists find themselves in a liminal existential situation.