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Section: Czechoslovakian Cinema: Films of My Childhood
Wolves' Lairs (1948)
The summer of 1944. Brothers Matus, Ondrej, Jano and Stefan meet again after returning from different corners of Europe. Matus escaped from forced labor in Germany, Ondrej is back from the Russian front, Jano (for a change) from Italy, and Stefan’s done with studying. Matus can't stay at home, so he joins Ondrej in the mountains, where he saves his brother's life. Ondrej must stay at home while the other brothers join the partisans. The German terror, carried out by Commandant Thiel, has no boundaries; the war against him requires the greatest sacrifices...
| Country | Czechoslovakia |
|---|---|
| Year | 1948 |
| Duration | 122 min |
| Rating | 12 |
| Directed by | Paľo Bielik |
| Screenplay | Valdemar Šašek, Leopold Lahola, Paľo Bielik |
| Director of Photography | Karol Krška |
| Edited by | Jan Kohout, Bedřich Voděrka |
| Contact | SFÚ |
Biography
A founding person of Slovak film. He started out as an actor; during the war years he shot for the Nástup company. He debuted with the film Wolves' Lairs (1948), then made the dramas The Forty-Four (1957) and Captain Dabač (1959) and the historical films Jánošík I, II (1962, 1963) and The Hangman (1966).