Sugar House (1981)
Synopsis
In the final days of the Second World War in 1945 Frantisek Pribyl is killed during a shoot-out with the Germans. After the funeral, the widow (Jana Svandová) and her two young sons Martin and Ondra move to her deceased husband's native village at the foot of the Kralický Snezník mountains. Life in the borderlands is far from easy for the lonely woman. The village is almost deserted, food supplies are delayed; the Werwolf (Nazi guerrilla squads) are hiding in the mountains, and shooting is heard from time to time. The elder son Ondra (Michal Dlouhý) is helping out his mother and at the same time absorbing intense new experiences. He meets an old Czech resident Skurek (Lubomír Kostelka), German women working in the forest, soldiers from the engineering units removing the mines, and a young first lieutenant. At night he dreams about his dead father whom he loved very much. This is why he runs away from home when he finds out that the lieutenant is courting his mother.
Release Date: 1981-05-22
Runtime: 85 minutes
Director: Karel Kachyňa
Top Cast
- Jana Švandová as maminka Přibylová
- Michal Dlouhý as Ondra - syn Přibylové
- Marek Mikuláš as Martin - Ondrův mladší bratr
- Lubomír Kostelka as správce Škurek
- Miroslav Macháček as antifašista Alfred Bartl zvaný Freda
- Jiří Kodet as František Přibyl, otec Ondry a Martina
- Ivan Vyskočil as nadporučík Bedřich
- Bára Štěpánová as Trudi
- František Němec as kapitán, později učitel
- Michal Pešek as Rudi, Bartlův syn
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