''The Organ'' is a 1965 Slovak film by

Štefan Uher Štefan Uher (4 July 1930 – 29 March 1993) was a Slovak film director, one of the members of the Czechoslovak New Wave. Life and work He was born in Prievidza on 4 June 1930. He graduated from the Film and TV School of the Academy of Perform ...

made at Filmové Studio Bratislava.Liliya Berezhnaya, Christian Schmitt - Iconic Turns: Nation and Religion in Eastern European Cinema since 1989 9004250816 2013 "more and more, there were also religious motifs to be found in the official genre of anti-fascist films: in Štefan Uher's Slovak movie Organ (The Organ; 1965), a Polish deserter counters the dogmatism of slovak clerical fascism — hostile to the spirit as well as to humanity — with the spiritual force of Bach's organ music. This also indirectly comments on the socialist present as well." The cast features Frantisek Bubik, Alexandr Brezina, and Kamil Marek. The plot concerns a young Polish deserter and a conservative Slovak priest sheltering from fascists.

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1965 films Czechoslovak films Films about deserters Films directed by Štefan Uher 1960s Czech films {{1960s-CzechRepublic-film-stub