Czech Film

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 2, 2008

Harrison Kash
(417) 673-1261
 

JOPLIN, MO (SNS) - A Czech film will be shown as part of the 46th Annual International Film Festival at Missouri Southern State University at 7 p.m., Tuesday, April 8 in Cornell Auditorium in Plaster Hall.

 

The film is The Fifth Horseman is Fear  (A Paty Jezdec je Strach)  (Czechoslovakia, 1964).

The film is free and open to the public.

 

In the film, a Jewish physician in Nazi-occupied Prague resorts to working in a warehouse after he is forbidden to practice medicine.  When he helps an injured political fugitive, he is plunged into a moral and ethical conflict. 

 

Within an historical context, director Zynek Brynych creates a thinly disguised allegory about Communist Czechoslovakia that is rich in atmosphere and dark in tone.  

 

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun -Times  called it  “…a nearly perfect film.”  Time Out London said the Fifth Horseman “is a striking portrayal of a society in moral meltdown.”
           
For details on the film, contact (417) 673-1261.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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