Cuckoo in a Dark Forest

Overview

Set in World War 2 as the Germans occupy Czechoslovakia, teenage Emilka's father is murdered by the Nazis, but she is selected for special treatment by virtue of being blonde. She is billeted with the commandant of a concentration camp near the Baltic coast, where his kindness towards her provokes his wife's jealousy, but is compromised when Emilka witnesses his brutality towards the prisoners.

Cast

Miroslava Součková

Emilka Fejfarová

Oleg Tabakov

Otto Kukuck

Alicja Jachiewicz

Frida Kukuck

Míla Myslíková

Frau Kramer

Vilém Besser

Teacher

Rafał Wieczyński

Staszek

Jana Andresíková

Frau Höpfner

N/A

Věra Vlčková

Frau Melnik

Jolanta Grusznic

Wanda

N/A

Karel Bělohradský

Kukuck's Driver

Pavel Trávníček

Krumey

N/A

Zdeněk Martínek