''Sekal Has to Die'' ( cs, Je třeba zabít Sekala, pl, Zabić Sekala) is a 1998 Czech film
directed
Director may refer to:
Literature
* ''Director'' (magazine), a British magazine
* ''The Director'' (novel), a 1971 novel by Henry Denker
* ''The Director'' (play), a 2000 play by Nancy Hasty
Music
* Director (band), an Irish rock band
* ''D ...
by
Vladimír Michálek
Vladimír Michálek (born 2 November 1956 in Mladá Boleslav) is a Czech film director and screenwriter.
Life
Michálek graduated from Czech film Academy ''FAMU'', Prague, in 1992. Starting during his academic study he was filming documentaries ...
. It was the Czech Republic's submission to the
71st Academy Awards
The 71st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best of 1998 in film and took place on March 21, 1999, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 5:30 p ...
for the
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, but was not accepted as a nominee.
[Margaret Herrick Library, Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]
The plot takes place in the small
Moravia
Moravia ( , also , ; cs, Morava ; german: link=yes, Mähren ; pl, Morawy ; szl, Morawa; la, Moravia) is a historical region in the east of the Czech Republic and one of three historical Czech lands, with Bohemia and Czech Silesia.
The m ...
n village during
World War II
World War II or the Second World War, often abbreviated as WWII or WW2, was a world war that lasted from 1939 to 1945. It involved the vast majority of the world's countries—including all of the great powers—forming two opposing ...
.
Cast
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Bogusław Linda as Ivan Sekal
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as Jura Baran
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Agnieszka Sitek
Agnieszka Sitek (born 8 July 1973, Łódź) is a Polish film, television and theatre actress.
Life and career
She was born on 8 July 1973 in Łódź. She is a graduate of the Bolesław Prus High School No. 21 in Łódź. In 1996, she graduated fr ...
as Agnieszka
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Jiří Bartoška
Jiří Bartoška (born 24 March 1947) is a Czech theatre, television, and film actor and president of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. His most notable film roles include performances in ''Sekal Has to Die'' (1998), ''All My Loved ...
as Priest
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Vlasta Chramostová
Vlasta Chramostová (17 November 1926 – 6 October 2019) was a Czech film actress. She appeared in 35 films since 1950. She starred in the 1950 film '' The Trap'' which was entered into the 1951 Cannes Film Festival.
A signatory of Charter 77, ...
as Mari
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L'udovít Cittel as Runt
See also
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Cinema of the Czech Republic
Czech cinema is the name for cinematography of Czech Republic, as well as the Czech cinematography while it was a part of other countries.
''The Fabulous World of Jules Verne'' is considered the most internationally successful Czech film ever ma ...
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References
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1998 films
1990s war drama films
Czech war drama films
Czech resistance to Nazi occupation in film
Czech Lion Awards winners (films)
Films scored by Michał Lorenc
1998 drama films
Czech World War II films
1990s Czech-language films
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