“The Black Battalion ” (original name: Czech. Cerný prapor , “The Black Flag ”) is a Czechoslovakian feature film shot by director Vladimir Čech at the Barrandov studio in 1958.
| Black battalion | |
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| Czech Cerný prapor | |
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| Genre | drama , adventure , war film |
| Producer | Vladimir Chekh |
| Author script | Miloslav Faber , Camille Peaks |
| In the main cast | Yaroslav Maresh , Frantisek Peterka Jerzy Dushinsky , Hanno Hasse Gunter Zimon |
| Operator | Rudolph Milic |
| Composer | Stepan Lutsk |
| Film company | Barrandov |
| Duration | 84 minutes |
| A country |  Czechoslovakia |
| Language | Czech |
| Year | 1958 |
| IMDb | ID 0247242 |
Story
1951 year . Czechoslovakia . A special flight from Vietnam landed at the Prague airport. On board are citizens of Czechoslovakia , who previously fought on the French side as part of the Foreign Legion in Indochina and then switched to the side of Vietnam .
They are met by few relatives and friends. A worried woman does not find her son Vaclav among the passengers, but turns to two former legionnaires, who in response are interested in where her son is from. She informs them that Wenceslas is from Pilsen . Legionnaires know only one of their combat associates from Pilsen - Lieutenant Wolf . Hearing this, the woman is shocked and constantly repeats: “Lieutenant Wolf ..., Lieutenant Wolf ...”, because Rudolf Wolf is a German , a former SS lieutenant, the murderer of Wenceslas father and sister during World War II .
Further, the plot of the film returns some time ago and tells a dramatic story about the everyday life of mercenaries from the French Foreign Legion during the First Indo-Chinese War in Vietnam , and how Vaclav Mali and Rudolf Wolf met in one unit of the legionnaires ...
Cast
- Yaroslav Maresh - Vaclav Maly
- Frantisek Peterka - Peter
- Gunter Zimon - Gerhard
- Ladislav Hudik - major
- Hanno Hasse - Rudolf Wolf, former SS lieutenant
- Tadeusz Schmidt - Tadeusz
- Jerzy Dushinsky - Antek
- Miriam Khinkova - girl
- Milos Wawrushka -
- Zdenek Krizanek - Katham, commander
- Kurt Oligmüller - Storch, Sergeant
- Jami Blank - Adjutant
- Karel Jelinek - Joker
- Maria Brozhova - mother of Wenceslas
- Karel Meister - Doctor
- Rudolph Dale - Peter's father
- Stefan Buleiko - Lord
- Vladimir Brabets
Links
- Black Battalion on the Internet Movie Database
- Černý prapor (inaccessible link) (Czech)