Overview
Told from the perspective of man reflecting on his childhood in Prague in the early years of World War II and the eventual destruction of his family as the Nazis rise to power. The storyline focuses heavily on Jewish-Czech Silberstein family members. Drama was filmed on the real events as a tribute to Mr. Nicholas Winton, the British humanitarian who organized the rescue of 669 children, most of them Jewish, from Czechoslovakia on the eve of the Second World War in an operation later known as the Czech Kindertransport from German-occupied Czechoslovakia and likely death in the Holocaust.
Director and cast
- Matej Mináč Director
- Josef Abrhám as Jakub Silberstein
- Libuše Šafránková as Irma Silberstein
- Jiří Bartoška as Samuel Silberstein
- Ondřej Vetchý as Max
- Braňo Holiček as David
- Lucia Cúlková as Soša
- Tereza Brodská as Hedvika
- Marián Labuda as Helmut Spitzer
- Krzysztof Kolberger as Leo Silberstein
- Agnieszka Wagner as Alena
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