Sokolovo | |
Director: | Otakar Vávra |
Music: | Zdeněk Liška |
Cinematography: | Andrej Barla |
Editing: | Antonín Zelenka |
Studio: | Mosfilm |
Runtime: | 128 minutes |
Country: | Czechoslovakia USSR |
Language: | Czech, Russian |
Budget: | 28 Million KČs[1] |
Sokolovo (Russian title Соколово) is a 1974 Soviet–Czechoslovak war film made by Otakar Vávra depicting the Battle of Sokolovo in 1943. The film was published in two parts and was meant as the middle part of Vávra's "war trilogy" consisting of movies Days of Betrayal, Sokolovo and Liberation of Prague.[2]
The plot begins in the Soviet Union showing first efforts to establish the Czechoslovak legion in 1942. The film also shows the assassination of Heydrich and the subsequent annihilation of Lidice. The main topis of the film is battles with German troops for Sokolovo.