
Cuckoo in a Dark Forest
Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.
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Top Cast

Miroslava Součková
Emilka Fejfarová

Oleg Tabakov
Otto Kukuck

Alicja Jachiewicz
Frida Kukuck

Míla Myslíková
Frau Kramer

Vilém Besser
Teacher

Rafał Wieczyński
Staszek

Jana Andresíková
Frau Höpfner
Věra Vlčková
Frau Melnik

Jolanta Grusznic
Wanda
Karel Bělohradský
Kukuck's Driver

Pavel Trávníček
Krumey
Zdeněk Martínek
Lena Birková

Vlasta Peterková

Jaroslava Tichá
Alena Karešová

Adolf Filip
Miroslav Grác
Zbigniew Bartoszek

Henryk Hunko
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