The life and slow death of Communist journalist and Prague City Council member Jozka Jaburkova in the Ravensbruck concentration camp is the focus of this wartime drama starring Jana Rihakova as the tragic Jaburkova. Suffering almost from the beginning as an illegitimate child burdened with extreme moral expectations by her fanatically religious mother, Jaburkova suffered at the hands of the teachers and authorities in her all girls’ school. Her sympathy for the oppressed or those experiencing unjust hardship or discrimination got her into trouble again and again, both as a student and when she went on to seek employment. As the camera focuses on scenes in the concentration camp, Jaburkova’s memories of her past are shown in flashbacks.
Director: Juraj Herz. AKA The Night Overtake Me
Writers: Juraj Herz (screenplay), Jaromíra Kolárová (screenplay).
Stars: Jana Riháková, Jana Brejchová, Rudolf Hrusínský, Katerina Urbancová, Dagmar Havlová, Sylvia Turbová, Andrea Bogusovská, Zdenka Sajfertová, Valérie Zawadská, Ludmila Molínová, Hana Brejchová, Eva Repíková, Yvetta Kornová, Jana Svobodová, Hana Militká, Hana Militká, Jan Hrusínský, Jirí Stepnicka, Radoslav Brzobohatý.
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