The Coward
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In a remote Slovak village in the closing days of World War II, a schoolteacher and his young wife find a wounded Russian parachutist in their front yard just as the Germans are coming in to occupy their village. As his wife readily becomes involved with anti-Nazi partisans, the schoolteacher collaborates with the Germans in fear.
Status: Released
Released Date: 1962-04-13
Runtime: 98 mins
Director: Jiří Weiss
Spoken language: Český
Genres: Drama, War
Original title: The Coward
Production Companies: Filmové studio Barrandov
Production Countries: Czechoslovakia
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