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Divided We Fall by Jan Hrebejk
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Anna Siskov?, Bolek Pol?vka, Csongor Kassai, Jaroslav Dusek, Martin Huba Director: Jan Hrebejk Brand: Sony Cinematographer: Jan Mal?r Writer: Jan Hrebejk Editor: Vladim?r Bar?k Producer: Ondrej Trojan Producer: Pavel Borovan Writer: Petr Jarchovsk? DVD: Region Code 99 Audio: Czech (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled) Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 117 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-11-27 Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Divided We FallMovie Review: Do the Right Thing Summary: 5 StarsI have spent much of my 56 years studying the Holocaust in an amatuer effort to comprehend the incomprehensible. I have found a lot to learn in fiction as well as fact. There are a number of excellent movies with Holocaust themes. "Divided We Fall" deals with the subject through the perspective of a Czech family who hides an escaped Jewish concentration camp inmate. The film begins with a good sequence of scenes that enables us to see the changing roles and relationships between former comrades. We are focussed on one couple and their challenge to cope with the circumstances that are thrust upon them. There is suspense, romance, and a surprising amount of comedy mixed into the film. About midway through the movie (and continuing for awhile) I got the impression that "Divided We Fall" was not a great film. Good but not great because it seemed that there were too many unnecessary scenes. However, as the film began to accelerate towards its' climax, I realized that everything was coming together in a way that I hadn't anticipated. The climax and the positive examples it gave me left me with a special and warm appreciation of what the director, Jan Hrebejk, meant to share with us. Most Holocaust and related films leave me with an emptiness rather than a fullness but Hrebejk uses hatred and distrust to show us love and reliance. Watching "Divided We Fail" was a very moving experience.
Summary of Divided We FallBased on a true story and takes place during world war ii in a small german-occupied czechoslovakian village where josef and marie cizek are a childless couple who struggle to evade detection when they provide shelter to a jewish neighbor who has escaped from a nazi concentration camp. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 06/24/2008 Starring: Bolek Polivka Jarosav Dusek Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Jan Hrebejk A daring comedy of ethics, Divided We Fall takes place during World War II in a small, Nazi-occupied town in Czechoslovakia. Josef and Maria, a childless couple, have withdrawn further and further from reality even as the war circles closer to their eerily quiet town. Josef's decision to sleep through a war he doesn't want to acknowledge is soon tested when the Jewish son of his former employer arrives in the middle of the night seeking refuge. David, the sole survivor from his family, escaped from a concentration camp in Poland and managed to return to the only place he knows in search of help. As they harbor David in their pantry over the next three years, Josef and Maria discover the depth of their resolve, forced to play the role of seeming collaborators in order to save themselves and David. Reminiscent more of Yugoslav filmmaker Emir Kustirica's devastating brand of black humor (Underground, Time of the Gypsies) than the saccharine Life Is Beautiful, to which it has been repeatedly compared, Divided We Fall achieves quite a lot, capturing the pervasive suspicion and betrayal of World War II through the unexpected guise of situation comedy. --Fionn Meade
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