Sekal Has to Die

Name: Sekal Has to Die
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 2023-09-12
Cast: Bogusław Linda, Olaf Lubaszenko, Jiří Bartoška, Agnieszka Sitek, Vlasta Chramostová

Drama from the summer of 1943, a period when occupied Czechoslovakia appeared on maps as the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia. It takes place in the Moravian village of Lakotice, where there is not a single German, and where the events of the war do not seem to even be happening.

Je třeba zabít Sekala

Vladimír Michálek

Czechia, Poland, Slovakia, France 1998

Czech

109 min.

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This film is available until 31. 7. 2024 in these territories: Czechia, Slovakia.

About

Jura Baran, a peasant, prosecuted by the Gestapo, escaped from his native mountains of poor Wallachia to hide in the middle of the Haná plain in Lakotice. As a foreigner, he does not have the trust of the locals. Lakotice is a village of a few buildings, with twelve rich estates scattered among the golden fields of ripening grain, whose owners live in fear of Sekal. He is the illegitimate son of one of the estates. He has had a cruel childhood as a bastard, despised by all, owned nothing, unnoticed by decent girls. Sekal is bitter and cruel, hates everything and everyone. His time has come with the Protectorate. He has already charged two landowners with crimes against the Reich. He got their property for it, they went to a concentration camp and died. The bastard has become the biggest landowner, and he's making it clear that two estates are not enough.

Credits

Director: Vladimír Michálek

Screenplay: Jiří Křižan

Cinematography: Martin Štrba

Music: Michał Lorenc

Sound: Radim Hladík ml., Ivo Špalj

Editing: Jiří Brožek

Production Design: Jiří Sternwald

Producer: Jaroslav Bouček

Co-production: Dariusz Jablonski

Costumes: Mona Hafsahl

Cast: Bogusław Linda, Olaf Lubaszenko, Jiří Bartoška, Agnieszka Sitek, Vlasta Chramostová, Ľudovít Cittel, Martin Sitta, Jiří Holý, Milan Riehs, Anton Šulík st.

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