''Shadows of a Hot Summer'' ( cs, Stíny horkého léta) is a 1978 Czechoslovak thriller film by František Vláčil. The film won a Crystal Globe award at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 1978.

Cast

Juraj Kukura Juraj Kukura (born 15 March 1947, in Prešov) is a Slovak actor. Kukura studied acting at the Academy of Performing Arts in Bratislava (VŠMU). Since 1985, when he emigrated to West Germany, his films were banned in the Czechoslovak Socialist ...

as Ondřej Baran * Marta Vančurová as Tereza Baranová * Gustáv Valach as Pavel Valchar * Robert Lischke as Lukáš Baran * Karel Chromík as Ukrainian Lieutenant *

Zdeněk Kutil Zdeněk is a Czech given name derived from the Latin name Sidonius. contested the relation with the Latin name, and an alternative etymology is a diminutive of Zdeslav.Jan Svoboda, Staročeská osobní jména se základem sd , sdě-, :Onomasti ...

as "Old" *

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 "White-haired" * Augustín Kubán as "Bald" * Gustav Opočenský as injured Ukrainian *

Ilja Prachař Ilja is a given name and surname. The given name is cognate to Ilya. Notable people with the given name include: *Ilja Bereznickas (born 1948), Lithuanian animator, illustrator, scriptwriter and caricaturist *Ilja Bergh (1927–2015), Danish pia ...

as Lieutenant Grygar * Michal Ladižinský as Drunk

Plot

The film is set in the 1940s after the end of

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 ...

. Ondřej Baran lives with his family in Beskydy, at a homestead in the mountains. One day five members of the

Ukrainian Insurgent Army The Ukrainian Insurgent Army ( uk, Українська повстанська армія, УПА, translit=Ukrayins'ka povstans'ka armiia, abbreviated UPA) was a Ukrainian nationalist paramilitary and later partisan formation. During World ...

come to their house. One of them is injured and the Ukrainians want to hide in the house until he recovers. They take the family as hostages and force Ondřej to bring a doctor to the house. They threaten Ondřej that if he appeals for help they will kill his family. Ondřej eventually realises that he has to deal with them by himself. He kills all the Ukrainians, but one of them shoots him and he dies. The film ends with Ondřej's funeral.

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* 1978 films 1970s thriller films 1970s Czech-language films Czech thriller films Czechoslovak thriller films Films directed by František Vláčil Ukrainian Insurgent Army 1970s Czech films Films about Ukrainian anti-Soviet resistance movement {{1970s-CzechRepublic-film-stub